n.
Function: verb
Inflected Form: slurred ; slur · ring
Etymology: probably from Low German slurrn to shuffle; akin to Middle English sloor mud
Date: 1660
transitive verb
1 a : to slide or slip over without due mention, consideration, or emphasis < slurred over certain facts> b : to perform hurriedly : SKIMP <let him not slur his lesson ― R. W. Emerson>
2 : to perform (successive tones of different pitch) in a smooth or connected manner
3 a : to reduce, make a substitution for, or omit (sounds that would normally occur in an utterance) b : to utter with such reduction, substitution, or omission of sounds <his speech was slurred >
intransitive verb
1 dialect chiefly English : SLIP , SLIDE
2 : DRAG , SHUFFLE