cur dog

noun

, South Midland and Southern U.S.

1. a worthless dog; mongrel.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cur dog¹

1200–50; Middle English cur dogge; curr, dog

Example Sentences

Cur Dog bounded his own height into the air, his howl died into a sob—he rolled over twice and then lay still.

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Cur Dog had won many a Sunday's coursing, and had something of the greyhound strain mingled with his terrier blood.

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The slope was in Cur Dog's favour, for a rabbit never runs his best downhill.

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Neither did Cur Dog see or smell it as he tore down the ride, yelping on the trail with his nose to the ground.

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This man had a large cur dog, who regularly every day brought him his dinner upwards of a mile.

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