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
At battle heat, Scotsman Murray's burred goddams can be softly terrible, Lithuanian-born Sidney Hillman's dat-for-that accent becomes a cracking sputter.
From Time Magazine Archive
He winked them indignantly, strove to clear his burred throat.
From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman
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