What's the difference between furry and gurry?

Furry


Definition:

  • (a.) Covered with fur; dressed in fur.
  • (a.) Consisting of fur; as, furry spoils.
  • (a.) Resembling fur.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mayhew, 69, signalled his intention to play Han Solo's furry wookie sidekick once again in September.
  • (2) What the historians may omit to mention is the crucial role played in her rise by those furry wide-mouthed friends, the Muppets .
  • (3) But mice are small and furry – how much can we extrapolate these findings to humans?
  • (4) The practice reached its peak in the early 1970s, when Mao Zedong sent the furry black-and-white ambassadors across the globe on a diplomatic charm offensive.
  • (5) The book's brutal last line – "Outside the owls hunted maternal rodents and their furry brood" – has been seen by some to prefigure war.
  • (6) The main host of the hedgehog flea is the European hedgehog, but the flea was also found in different furry mammals, such as polecats, brown rats and foxes.
  • (7) All of these films had something fascinating, apart from The Beaver , which was not very good, particularly if you find Mel Gibson talking to himself in a mockney accent via a furry glove puppet hard to bear.
  • (8) In the conference halls and the streets around them, the summits tend to be sheer pandemonium: activists arrive smeared in green paint or sweating behind furry polar bear suits; peasant women from the Andes in traditional bowler hats sing songs to Mother Earth when their leaders are on camera; celebrities bring their own circus – Robert Redford is expected to come to Paris and Thom Yorke is a conference regular.
  • (9) However, it is the marmoset – furry, curious and humanlike – that triggers the most intense emotional responses, a point acknowledged by Mary (who asked not to be fully identified), the senior research technician in charge of the animals at King's, who devotes her time to the animals' welfare, right down to knitting hammocks for them to sleep in.
  • (10) Every hard man has a softer side and for Putin, according to the Putinspiration feed, it’s his furry friends.
  • (11) When a furry green puppet eventually emerges, they squeal with delight – although Twiddle the Turtle's message seems to baffle them slightly.
  • (12) Hundreds of furry little bodies ambled among us, looking curiously at the human interlopers.
  • (13) An essential aspect of the corresponding double barrier quantal model is its nonstationarity, resulting from combined application of binomial and Yule-Furry statistics.
  • (14) "We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor."
  • (15) She was clearly unable to resist the explanation this week from environment secretary Owen Paterson that the cull in Somerset needed to go into extra time, having failed to produce enough furry black and white scores because "the badgers moved the goalposts".
  • (16) She arrives at her sister’s Disneyland-themed wedding in an Ambien haze, determined to seduce Tigger; instead, she ends up grinding into the fake-furry chipmunk belly of Dale.
  • (17) Photograph: Clare Kendall We head for Renmin Park, in the centre of Chengdu, a great destination for people watching when you've had enough of all things furry.
  • (18) All those girls in the furry boots, they look like Clydesdale horses!"
  • (19) Should anyone question why Tom Ford, the best dressed man in London and the fashion visionary of his generation, should choose to include crystal micro-mini dresses, white furry sleeves and lace-up thigh-high boots in his catwalk collection, this is what you must say.
  • (20) Solo's perennial sidekick, Chewbacca, is heavily tipped to return with original actor, Peter Mayhew, in the furry wookie suit , and Disney has confirmed the new film will feature the diminutive droid R2-D2 .

Gurry


Definition:

  • (n.) An alvine evacuation; also, refuse matter.
  • (n.) A small fort.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yarrowia (Candida) lipolytica was the predominant organism isolated from the surface film of growth derived from ground hake gurry to which only phosphoric acid was added to give a pH of 4.0.

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