Word Study
currish
CIDE DICTIONARY
currish, a. [From Cur.].
Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal. [1913 Webster]
"Thy currish spirit
Governed a wolf." [1913 Webster]
Governed a wolf." [1913 Webster]
"Some currish plot, -- some trick."
OXFORD DICTIONARY
currish, adj.
1 like a cur; snappish.
2 ignoble.
1 like a cur; snappish.
2 ignoble.
Derivative
currishly adv. currishness n.
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