Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Fine rain.
- To rain slightly; drizzle.
Examples
“He was shifting his cramped attitude a little -- a very little -- for about the twentieth time, when a smur of colour showed on the mirror, and the next instant passed into a dark shadow.”
“There's a heavy mist and a thick smur -- but I hear steps on the shingle.”
“Once more the great sword was swung up, for Desiderius neither heard nor heeded the cry and rush of the Avars; but or ever the stroke could fall Desiderius saw the Angel of Essalona by his side and felt his hand restraining the blade; and at the same instant the figure before him, the figure of the King Orgulous, grew dim and hazy, and wavered, and broke like smur blown along a wooded hillside, and vanished from his gaze.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘smur’.
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Rainy weather report.
Today's weather.
is it rain, sprinkles, showers, sleet, or drizzle?
Are those drops, droplets?
Is the weatherman just using the word precipitation?
Is the scientist causing ...rain, shower, sprinkle, sleet, drizzle, drops, droplets, precipitation, freezing rain, thundershower, mist, pour and 126 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
Tweets
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atourgates How about, "can I have some more smör on my s'more?" Oct 28, 2008
dontcry Sounds like 'smör' - "butter" in Swedish. We say, "please pass the smör."
JAG kan icke tro på den er inte smör!(I can't believe it's not butter!) Oct 28, 2008
reesetee A fine rain or drizzle. Also spelled smir or smurr. Oct 28, 2008