currish
Americanadjective
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of or relating to a cur.
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curlike; snarling; quarrelsome.
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contemptible; base.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of currish
First recorded in 1425–75, currish is from the late Middle English word kuresshe. See cur, -ish 1
Example Sentences
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Were you one of this currish crew?"—pride pursed his lip, As firm as bandog's, brought the bull to bay— While answered he: "I fought with others.
From Poems by Victor Hugo
The last sort of dogs consisteth of the currish kind meet for many toys, of which the whappet or prick-eared cur is one.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
O people currish, churlish as their seas— He rejoices he leaves them, never to return till “rocks shall turn to rivers.”
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
Then I saw a thousand faces made currish by the cold, whence shuddering comes to me, and will always come, at frozen pools.
From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell by Charles Eliot Norton
Let Aesop fable in a winter's night; His currish riddle sorts not with this place.
From King Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare
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