Etymology
Origin of burred
Example Sentences
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Her voice is low and gently burred, her affect is a funky mix of playfulness and precision.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2020
Camera shutters burred; the guizers yelled; and the longship, traveling in the opposite direction, scythed through the fire like a ghostly spectre.
From Slate • Oct. 30, 2015
Mr. Starr has a skinny, burred voice that sounds as if he were quivering, and when the guitarist Paul Jackson chimes in with high harmony vocals, as on “Six Ways to Sunday,” it’s bracing.
From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2012
They compose their own songs, sing them in soft, burred voices, and ac company themselves on a bewildering array of instruments: guitars, whistles, sitars, ouds, organs, harmonicas, violins and gimbris.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both of these sincerely and seriously regarded me as “gifted” or elfin-favoured, and the latter said in proof thereof, “Only listen to his voice; sure whin he spakes he’d while a burred aff a tree.”
From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey
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