cur dog


nounSouth Midland and Southern U.S.
  1. a worthless dog; mongrel.

Origin of cur dog

1
1200–50; Middle English cur dogge;see curr, dog

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How to use cur dog in a sentence

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

    Lives of the Fur Folk | M. D. Haviland
  • cur dog had won many a Sunday's coursing, and had something of the greyhound strain mingled with his terrier blood.

    Lives of the Fur Folk | M. D. Haviland
  • The slope was in cur dog's favour, for a rabbit never runs his best downhill.

    Lives of the Fur Folk | M. D. Haviland
  • Neither did cur dog see or smell it as he tore down the ride, yelping on the trail with his nose to the ground.

    Lives of the Fur Folk | M. D. Haviland
  • This man had a large cur dog, who regularly every day brought him his dinner upwards of a mile.

    Anecdotes of Dogs | Edward Jesse