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A word built to wound, doing in one syllable what a paragraph of contempt couldn't.
means An insulting or demeaning term aimed at a person or group, often based on identity; also, to speak words sloppily or smear someone's reputation.
from From a 16th-century dialect word meaning thin mud or smear, related to Middle Low German slur, sludge; insulting and slurring speech both descend from the idea of staining or dragging through dirt.
Mud rootsOriginally meant literal thin, slippery mud or filth.
Music tooIn notation, a slur smoothly connects sliding notes.
Drunk speechSlurred words come from the same smear-and-drag sense.