squir

English

Alternative forms

• squirr

Pronunciation

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

Verb

squir (third-person singular simple present squirs, present participle squirring, simple past and past participle squirred)

1. (obsolete) To throw with a jerking motion; to skim.
   • 1711 June 9 (Gregorian calendar), [Eustace Budgell], “TUESDAY, May 29, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 77; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     We took a turn or two more, when, to my great surprise, I saw him squir away his watch a considerable way into the Thames

     The spelling has been modernized.

References

• “squir”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.