v.
(slurs, slurring, slurred)
- (with reference to speech) articulate or be articulated indistinctly.
- pass over (a fact or aspect) so as to conceal or minimize it.
- Music perform (a group of two or more notes) legato.
▸mark (notes) with a slur.
- chiefly US make insinuations or allegations about.
n.
- an insinuation or allegation.
- an indistinct utterance.
- Music a curved line indicating that notes are to be slurred.
Derivative
Etymology
ME (as n. in sense ‘thin mud’, later as v. meaning ‘smear’ and ‘disparage’); of unknown origin.