churr

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Local birdwatcher Neil Bostock was the first to discover the birds on 3 June after hearing the "churr" before male and female birds were seen engaging in mating displays, signalling their intent to breed.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2018

“I didn’t really trust it. I remember walking into a received pronunciation class and they were all going ‘How Now Brown Cow’ and I said ‘Do you huv a spur churr?’

From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2017

I saw his mouth open and shut, he hollowed his hands round it, but the churr of the motor and the bees drowned his words.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard

If churn is anywhere dialectal for churr, it must have come from the common mistake of substituting a familiar for an unknown word: and this is the worst way of making homophones.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems by Society for Pure English

Once, the faint churr of a distant fern-owl sent a vibrant dissonance, that was yet strangely soothing, through the darkness and the silence.

From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Macleod, Fiona