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🪚 Support strips 🦠 A coating layer 🐾 A fur covering
furring

furring

9.5
A coating on the tongue or inside pipes that looks like soft fur
  • noun
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  • The doctor explained that furring on the tongue can be a sign of dehydration.

So that disease that affects the blood vessels leads to build up of something called plaque, which is furring if you like.

Examples

  • There was a noticeable furring inside the old pipes, causing water to flow slowly.

  • After the winter, the furring on the car's exhaust pipes made them less efficient.

  • So that disease that affects the blood vessels leads to build up of something called plaque, which is furring if you like.

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Compounds

furring strip
  • Specialized
1 8.8

A thin strip of wood or metal that makes a flat surface for attaching boards

How Coated

furring
9.5
scum
24 4.2
film
191 3.2

Surface Forms

furring singular
furrings plural

Morphology

furring = fur (semi-transparent) = fur + ing

The form is clearly based on 'fur' + '-ing', but the sense of a coating on pipes or the tongue is a specialized extension rather than a fully literal combination.

Etymology

Furring comes from fur 'hair' and -ing 'a covering', so it means a 'hair-like cover'. That's why the whitish, hairy layer that can form on the tongue or inside pipes is called furring.