Meaning & use
Birr
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Vigorous energy or force in movement or speech; also, the basic monetary unit of Ethiopia.
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He spoke with such birr that the whole room fell silent.
The souvenir cost about two hundred birr at the local market.
A note on using this word
The 'energy' sense is chiefly Scottish and Northern English; the currency sense refers to Ethiopia's official currency.
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2. noun
The official currency of Ethiopia.
She exchanged her dollars for Ethiopian birr at the airport.
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