currish
Example Sentences
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"Of a dog; currish," is the definition which we get from Johnson,—quite correctly, and in accordance with its etymology.
From Thackeray by Anthony Trollope
In a moment I was beside her, riding bare-back, with Maisie clasping my waist, as indeed we had often ridden before—though never so perilously, nor yet with such a currish retinue yowling at our tail.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Then the currish way in which he took his licking added to the sport.
From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Walter Paget
Timon, the great-natured, truly generous man, whose mind is as beneficial as the sun, cannot be currish, nor stoop to the baseness of revenge.
From William Shakespeare by John Masefield
He was a cur, and denied the accusation in a currish manner, hardly intended to create belief.
From Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope
