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
Other Word Forms
- currishly adverb
- currishness noun
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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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
There are faces which, in their usual form, seem to bluster with prosperity, but which the loss of a dozen points at whist will reduce to that currish aspect which reminds one of a dog-whip.
From The Eustace Diamonds by Trollope, Anthony
I miss animal life sadly in these parts: the dogs I see about the streets are few in number, and miserably currish specimens of their kind.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
She practised the arts that breeders would use, who aimed at creating ferocious, currish, and stupid nature.
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman
It seems a currish fate that puts such men into the grasp of paltry and sordid cares like these!
From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons
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