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PRONUNCIATION:

(skuhr)

MEANING:

verb intr.: To move rapidly, especially away.
verb tr.: To range rapidly over an area, especially in search of something.
noun: A whirring or grating sound.

ETYMOLOGY:

Perhaps a variant of scour (to move rapidly or search), itself perhaps from Old Norse skur (shower). Earliest documented use: 1548 for the verb and c. 1870 for the noun.

USAGE:

“The gamine Griffiths skirrs around her set, fuelled by four cups of coffee and the energy of being not even 30 years old.”
Lauren Martin; Death and the Maiden; The Sydney Morning Herald; Mar 18, 1998.

“The name [Rumi] is an expedient wrapped in an approximation. It spares the American votary the trouble of negotiating the throaty skirr of ‘Jelaluddin’ or ‘Jalal al-Din’, not to mention bushwhacking through all that thorny spelling.”
David Barber; Rumi Nation; Parnassus: Poetry in Review (New York); 2001.

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