skirr

• “October 12, 2008 4: 28 am well – skirr is well used in Scotland.”

  Save the language! « Write Anything

• “Also on the list is the word skirr, which means to go rapidly or fly.”

  KeysNews.com -

• “A rattlesnake sounding its harsh "skirr" under the chair on which the stranger is sitting could not cause him to start up more abruptly than he does, when Borlasse says: --”

  The Death Shot A Story Retold

• “It is apodeictic that, while perhaps obscure, words like "skirr" and "periapt" serve uniquely expressive purposes and cannot be subrogated by other, more commonplace words.”

  A Gentleman's C

• “Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has adopted "skirr" and actor Stephen Fry is championing the survival of "fubsy.”

  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed

• “Of course, he’s also a ham, and likes to summon the skirr of the bagpipes with his accent at strategic social moments.”

  Peter Pouncey - An interview with author

• “The old woman continued to muse aloud, a monotonous irritating sound, while Elizabeth thought concentratedly, startled once, when she heard the winding-engine chuff quickly, and the brakes skirr with a shriek.”

  The Prussian Officer and Other Stories

• “Our left wing, when they occupied the hills, saw four or five hundred Turks 'skirr away' in one body, and the machine-gunners found a target.”

  The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad

• “Two minutes later another spark flashes out from the same spot, and a leaden messenger buries itself with a skirr and a thud, within ten yards of the little group of officers.”

  On the Heels of De Wet

• “A pretty business this, it seemed to him: twenty miles back of beyond; horses sent on at random ahead; a gang of murderers in hiding above -- Matthews walked boldly along the precipice trail, saw the eagle below circling, still circling; heard a hawk skirr and scold from”

  The Freebooters of the Wilderness

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