slur

English

musical notation for a slur (senses 2 and 3)

nigger - a dumb nigger slave with no rights.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slɜː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

• Audio (US):

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Noun

slur (plural slurs)

1. An insult or slight, particularly one used to denigrate a specific group.

   a racial slur

2. (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
3. (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).

   Coordinate term: tie

4. (obsolete) A trick or deception.
5. In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

Derived terms

• f-slur

Translations

insult or slight

• Bulgarian: оскърбление (bg) n (oskǎrblenie)
• Finnish: herja (fi), loukkaus (fi)
• French: insulte (fr) f, injure (fr) f
• German: Verunglimpfung (de) f, Beleidigung (de) f
• Hungarian: sértő/becsmérlő megjegyzés/kifejezés, gyalázkodás, (informal) leszólás
• Japanese: 蔑称 (ja) (べっじょう, besshō), 軽蔑語 (けいべつご, keibetsu-go), 卑罵語 (ひばご, hibago)
• Maori: tīkai
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: oszczerstwo (pl) n, obelga (pl) f
• Portuguese: insulto (pt)
• Russian: клеветни́ческое обвине́ние n (klevetníčeskoje obvinénije), оскорби́тельный намёк m (oskorbítelʹnyj namjók), инсинуа́ция (ru) f (insinuácija)
• Spanish: denigración (es) f, insulto (es) m
• Turkish: hakaret (tr), aşağılama (tr)

set of notes

• Finnish: legato-jakso
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: rōnaki

symbol indicating a legato passage

• Bulgarian: легато (bg) n (legato)
• Dutch: legatoboog
• Finnish: sidekaari, legato-kaari
• French: liaison d’expression f, coulé (fr) m, legato (fr) m
• German: Bindebogen m
• Italian: legatura di portamento f, legatura di frase f, legatura di espressione f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: ligadura f
• Russian: лега́то (ru) n (legáto)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceangal m
• Spanish: legato (es) m, ligadura de expresión f, ligadura (es) f
• Swedish: bindebåge (sv)

Verb

slur (third-person singular simple present slurs, present participle slurring, simple past and past participle slurred)

1. To insult or slight.
   • Template:RQ:Tennyson MOG

     And how men slur him, saying all his force
     Is melted into mere effeminacy?

2. To run together; to articulate poorly.

   to slur syllables;  He slurs his speech when he is drunk.

   • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:

     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.

3. (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
   • 1817, Thomas Busby, A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical

     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

4. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
   • Template:RQ:Cudworth True

     they do not only impudently slur the gospel, according to the history and the letter, in making it no better than a romantical legend […]

5. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
   • 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The First Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

     With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.

6. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
   • 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “(please specify the page)”, in Hudibras. The First Part. […], London: […] J. G. for Richard Marriot, […], →OCLC:

     to slur men of what they fought for

7. (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

Derived terms

• slur over

Translations

to insult or slight

• Bulgarian: обиждам (bg) (obiždam)
• Finnish: herjata (fi), loukata (fi)
• French: dénigrer (fr), rabaisser (fr), traiter (fr), dévaloriser (fr)
• Hungarian: leszól (hu), gyaláz (hu)
• Irish: aithisigh
• Italian: denigrare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: tīkai
• Serbo-Croatian: nipodaštavati (sh)
• Turkish: aşağılamak (tr)

to articulate poorly

• Finnish: sammaltaa (fi), sopertaa
• French: mal articuler
• German: undeutlich reden
• Italian: biascicare (it)
• Japanese: 舌がもつれる (したがもつれる, shita ga motsureru)
• Macedonian: слева (sleva)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: bełkotać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: arrastar (pt)
• Russian: заплета́ться (ru) (zapletátʹsja), глота́ть (слова) (glotátʹ (slova))
• Serbo-Croatian: razvlačiti (sh), nerazgovetno govoriti, nerazgovjetno govoriti, plesti jezikom
• Spanish: mascullar (es), arrastrar las palabras
• Swedish: sluddra (sv)

to play legato

• Finnish: sitoa (fi)
• French: lier (fr), phraser (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: слева (sleva)

to soil, sully, to contaminate, disgrace

• Bulgarian: опетнявам (bg) (opetnjavam)
• Finnish: tahrata (fi), loata (fi)
• French: dévaloriser (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to cover over, disguise, conceal; to pass over with little notice

• Finnish: peittää (fi), piilottaa (fi), pitää salassa; sujauttaa (to pass over with little notice)
• French: glisser (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to cheat; to trick

• Finnish: huijata (fi), huiputtaa (fi)
• French: dissimuler (fr), filouter (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

printing: to blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle

• French: dissimuler (fr), maquiller (fr), flouter (fr)
• Serbo-Croatian: mrljati (sh)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Further reading

• Slur (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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