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| Grammar : Noun |
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| Phonetic Transcription : kɜr |
Definition of cur
Origin :- early 13c., curre, earlier kurdogge used of both vicious dogs and cowardly dogs, probably from Old Norse kurra or Middle Low German korren both echoic, both meaning "to growl." Cf. Swedish dialectal kurre, Middle Dutch corre "house dog."
- noun rotten, lowly animate being
- noun animal of mixed breed
- It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- "You were always a cur and a traitor, Mark Shaw," cried Aylward.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Had he not once picked up a cur on such a stormy night as this?
- Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
- In the village two people only, the cur and the garde champtre?
- Extract from : « The Fte At Coqueville » by Emile Zola
- "That" was a kick that doubled the cur up against the settee.
- Extract from : « Cap'n Eri » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- "It's cur'osity as is the mischief i' this world," said the drowsy-eyed countryman.
- Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
- But you are learning, cur; you are learning by the pain of your fat carcase; is it not so, carrion?
- Extract from : « Bardelys the Magnificent » by Rafael Sabatini
- Perdition to the land where a man could not live unless he was a skunk or a cur.
- Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
- The cur gravely salutes you as you pass by, "Bon jour, mon ami!"
- Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.
- The cur says that you have had more than your share of worldly vicissitudes.
- Extract from : « Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune » by Charles James Lever
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