slur
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
media
music
printing
publishing
Etymology: From Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”). Cognate with Middle Low German sluren (“to trail in mud”). Also related to dialectal Norwegian sløra (“to be careless, to scamp, dawdle”), Danish sløre (“to wobble, be loose”) (especially for wheels); compare Old Norse slóðra (“to drag oneself along”).
* (an extremely offensive term): Influenced by various compounds of sense 1 such as racial slur, ethnic slur, etc.
Inflected forms:
form: slurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slurs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slurring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slurred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slurred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An insult or slight, especially one that is muttered incoherently under one's breath.
pos: noun
examples: It seems that according to their best guess, our mother's ^([sic]) drank too much coffee or alcohol, took drugs, or were under stress during the period of our conception. Underlying all this speculation is, of course, the big slur: we're some kind of unnatural or abnormal product, outside of humanity and their religions.
gloss: An insult or slight, especially one that is muttered incoherently under one's breath.
pos: noun
examples: In interviews, current and former students of color described an environment rife with racial insensitivity, including casual uses of slurs.
Elon Musk's recent declaration that the term "cis" is a slur indicates just how much transphobia is now central to Twitter.
gloss: A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.
pos: noun
examples: a slur on one's reputation
The undeserved slur which he had cast on my management of the household did not, I am happy to say, prevent me from returning good for evil to the best of my ability, by complying with his request as readily and respectfully as ever.
This was a reproach to John, and a slur upon the dog; and both were alive to their misfortune.
gloss: An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
pos: noun
examples: And now I'm drinking too much, so I'ma talk with a slur
gloss: Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.
pos: noun
gloss: A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
pos: noun
gloss: The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
pos: noun
gloss: To insult or slight.
pos: verb
examples: And how men slur him, saying all his force / Is melted into mere effeminacy?
gloss: To run together; to articulate poorly.
pos: verb
examples: to slur syllables;  He slurs his speech when he is drunk.
"Thank you for your donation," the girl says, slurring the words together into a single syllable.
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
gloss: To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
pos: verb
examples: Notes , the stems of which are joined together by cross lines, as in united quavers , semiquavers , & c . or notes over the heads of which a curve is drawn, to signify that they are to be slurred
gloss: To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
pos: verb
examples: they do not only impudently slur the gospel, according to the history and the letter, in making it no better than a romantical legend[…]
gloss: To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
pos: verb
examples: With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
gloss: To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
pos: verb
examples: to slur men of what they fought for
gloss: To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
pos: verb
tags: dated
Related words: slurry
Derived words: downslur
f-slur
j-slur
Q-slur
r-slur
r-slurred
t-slur
upslur
slur over
slurrer
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: оскърбление
roman: oskǎrblenie
lang: Danish
word: skældsord
lang: Finnish
word: herja
lang: Finnish
word: loukkaus
lang: French
word: insulte
lang: French
word: injure
lang: Galician
word: gafume
lang: Galician
word: alcume
lang: German
word: Verunglimpfung
lang: German
word: Beleidigung
lang: Hungarian
word: gyalázkodás
lang: Hungarian
word: leszólás
lang: Irish
word: tarcaisne
lang: Japanese
word: 蔑称
roman: besshō
lang: Japanese
word: 軽蔑語
roman: keibetsu-go
lang: Japanese
word: 卑罵語
roman: hibago
lang: Māori
word: tīkai
lang: Polish
word: oszczerstwo
lang: Polish
word: obelga
lang: Portuguese
word: insulto
lang: Russian
word: клеветни́ческое обвине́ние
roman: klevetníčeskoje obvinénije
lang: Russian
word: оскорби́тельный намёк
roman: oskorbítelʹnyj namjók
lang: Russian
word: инсинуа́ция
roman: insinuácija
lang: Russian
word: слюр
roman: sljur
lang: Spanish
word: insulto discriminatorio
lang: Spanish
word: insulto racista
lang: Spanish
word: insulto étnico
lang: Turkish
word: hakaret
lang: Turkish
word: aşağılama
lang: Ukrainian
word: слюр
roman: sljur