Purring

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pur \Pur\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Purred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Purring}.] [Of imitative origin; cf. Prov. G. purren.]
     To utter a low, murmuring, continued sound, as a cat does
     when pleased. [Written also {purr}.]
     [1913 Webster]



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "purring":
     beaming, beatific, beatified, birring, blessed, blissful,
     bombilation, bombinating, bombination, booming, burring, buzzing,
     capering, cheerful, chirping, dancing, droning, flushed with joy,
     gay, glad, glowing, happy, hum, humming, joyful, joyous, laughing,
     leaping, low rumbling, radiant, singing, smiling, smirking,
     sparkling, starry-eyed, thrice happy, thrumming, whirring,
     whizzing