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say it: slur
slur is a verb and noun meaning "play smoothly or legato". It carries 7 recorded senses.
play smoothly or legato
“the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata”
music
speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur
“your comments are slurring your co-workers”
utter indistinctly
become vague or indistinct
“The distinction between the two theories blurred”
(music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato
music
a disparaging remark
“in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion”
“it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for slur come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.