cur dog
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cur dog
Example Sentences
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If they're not fearing you, itself, the peelers in this place is decent droughty poor fellows, wouldn't touch a cur dog and not give warning in the dead of night.
From The Playboy of the Western World by Synge, J. M. (John Millington)
We were charging through an old citizen's yard, when a big yellow cur dog ran out and commenced snapping at the soldiers' legs— they kicking at him to keep him off.
From "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show by Watkins, Sam R.
There are some kinds of cur dog that are useful.
From Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings by Allen, Lewis Falley
The two who were left, Jacky and Nancy, went to their father, and took with them a cur dog that had long shared their frugal meals.
From Mary Wollstonecraft by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
Fluff-Button skipped round, and it was well that he did so, for there, not five yards away, stood Magragh's yellow cur dog with his tongue lolling out, and his wicked eyes on the sheep.
From Lives of the Fur Folk by Haviland, M. D.
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