Present participle of 'birr'; making a whirring sound.
From the imitative verb 'birr' with the '-ing' suffix added to show continuous action. The base word mirrors the sound itself.
When you add '-ing' to 'birr,' you get a word that both looks and sounds like the action it describes—the double 'r' and the sound of the word itself echo the whirring noise!
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