cur

All the setting was small and homelike and simple, like the village itself and the cur.
Our Part in the Great War|Arthur Gleason
He cursed himself for a cur and a coward, but somehow he could not force the words to his lips.
The Phantom Lover|Ruby M. Ayres
Cur ineffabiles et innarrabiles affectus communibus verbis conamur exprimere?
The Essence of Christianity|Ludwig Feuerbach
The cur was a all time absent, and when he return had no good news for Robert; his errand had been ineffectual.
The Catholic World; Vol. IV.; October, 1866, to March, 1867.|E. Rameur

A cur dog, as a rule, can drive the largest wolf on the plains.
Birds and all Nature, Vol. IV, No. 1, July 1898|Various

British Dictionary definitions for cur

cur

/ (kɜː) /

noun

any vicious dog, esp a mongrel

a despicable or cowardly person

Word Origin for cur

C13: shortened from kurdogge; probably related to Old Norse kurra to growl

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