currish

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Our ears are first assailed by a few shrill, currish barks at intervals, like the outpost firing of skirmishing parties.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Such rival Leos flourish, And mutual hatred nourish, With a snapping almost currish, upon Afric's shore.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 2, 1891 by Various

At the manor-house steps he found at last sufficient grace to say: "It was a currish thing to do; will you forgive me, Ardea?"

From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.

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

In spite of all these Roman basilisks, That seek to quell us with their currish looks, We will to Pontus: we'll have gold, my hearts; Those oriental pearls shall deck our brows.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various