Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to birr
Participle: birred
Gerund: birring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | birr |
| you | birr |
| he;she;it | birrs |
| we | birr |
| you | birr |
| they | birr |
Perfect
| I | have birred |
| you | have birred |
| he;she;it | has birred |
| we | have birred |
| you | have birred |
| they | have birred |
Past
| I | birred |
| you | birred |
| he;she;it | birred |
| we | birred |
| you | birred |
| they | birred |
Pluperfect
| I | had birred |
| you | had birred |
| he;she;it | had birred |
| we | had birred |
| you | had birred |
| they | had birred |
Future
| I | will birr |
| you | will birr |
| he;she;it | will birr |
| we | will birr |
| you | will birr |
| they | will birr |
Future Perfect
| I | will have birred |
| you | will have birred |
| he;she;it | will have birred |
| we | will have birred |
| you | will have birred |
| they | will have birred |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | birr |
| you | birr |
| he;she;it | birr |
| we | birr |
| you | birr |
| they | birr |
Perfect
| I | have birred |
| you | have birred |
| he;she;it | have birred |
| we | have birred |
| you | have birred |
| they | have birred |
Imperfect
| I | birred |
| you | birred |
| he;she;it | birred |
| we | birred |
| you | birred |
| they | birred |
Pluperfect
| I | had birred |
| you | had birred |
| he;she;it | had birred |
| we | had birred |
| you | had birred |
| they | had birred |
Conditional
Present
| I | would birr |
| you | would birr |
| he;she;it | would birr |
| we | would birr |
| you | would birr |
| they | would birr |
Perfect
| I | would have birred |
| you | would have birred |
| he;she;it | would have birred |
| we | would have birred |
| you | would have birred |
| they | would have birred |
Imperative
| you | birr |
| we | Let's birr |
| you | birr |
Verbs conjugated like 'birr'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'birr'
bird,
birl,
burr,
aberr,
air,
airt,
arr,
bar,
barb,
bard,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English bir (“favorable or strong wind”), from Old English byre (“strong wind, storm”); cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk bør, Icelandic byrr (“sailing winds”), Albanian borë (“snow”), and Polish burza (“storm, thunderstorm”).
Sample Sentences
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if it is ordained that ye must forget him, ye will banish him from your mind the mair easily that ye ken nae mair o' him than ye do o' the bird that birrs past ye in the wood—that it has a bonny feather in its tail." [1869, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XXIII:]
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The gudewife birrs wi ' the wheel a' day, Three threeds an' a thrum, Three threeds an' a thrum, [1883, Edwin Paxton Hood, Scottish Characteristics, page 336:]
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The muircock birrs at yer snell ha' door , An' fyles blawin' drift yer sheep will smore, [1925, Charles Stewart Black, The Scots Magazine - Volume 4, page 256:]
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His cowt grew reezy, its lang tail 'Twad swash, and lugs wad birr up, At length it cuist him, and did trail Him hame, by fit i'e stirrup, [1824, “The Burning O' The Bible”, in John Mactaggart, editor, The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, page 499:]
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She's bow't i' the bacck, has a growth on her shouther, And hirples in daytime when steerin ' frae hame ; But nichtly birrs aff like a rocket o ' puother, And reels ' mang the staurs on a broomstick o ' fame . [1889, David Herschell Edwards, editor, One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets, page 192:]
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When wark had ceased - fiel', Lads knitted, lassies trig an' clean, Did birr the spinnin' wheel; [1885, Charles Stewart, “Auld Granny Mucklejohn's View of the Times”, in David Herschell Edwards, editor, One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets:]
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The swankies lap thro' mire and slike, Wow ! as their heads did birr: They yowph'd the ba' frae dike to dike, Wi ' unco' speed and virr, [1999, Duncan Glen, Scottish Literature: A New History from 1299 to 1999, page 54:]