Cur
[kɜː] or [kɝ]
Definition
(noun.) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed.
(noun.) a cowardly and despicable person.
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Definition
(n.) A mongrel or inferior dog.
(n.) A worthless, snarling fellow; -- used in contempt.
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Definition
n. a parish priest in France.
n. a worthless dog of low breed: a churlish fellow.—adj. Cur′rish.—adv. Cur′rishly.—n. Cur′rishness.
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Examples
- For the dog, I know it to be the cur of the runaway slave Gurth, a useless fugitive like its master. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Bob, the Miser's cur. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Did you hear him say, you cur, that he was going to have the Mounds cleared off, when no doubt the whole place will be rummaged? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- To inquire what he might have done, if he had had any boldness, would be like inquiring what a mongrel cur might do, if it had the spirit of a tiger. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Cur ie examined at the same time the salts of uranium and a number of uranium ores. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They even sought for a substance that might effect all transmutations, and be for mankind a cur e for all ailments, even that of growing old. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Out with it, you thundering old cur, out with it! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The proud knight instantly stopped, turned back, folded his arms, drew up his form to its full height, and exclaimed, Peace, ye yelping curs! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I never saw such utterly wretched, starving, sad-visaged, broken-hearted looking curs in my life. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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