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currish, a.|ˈkɜːrɪʃ|
Also 5 kurressh, 6 courrissh.
[f. cur + -ish.]
1. Of, relating to, or resembling a cur.
1565–73Cooper Thesaurus, Canînus, doggish, currish. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. vi. lxiv. (1634) 46 One of these..Doth utter barking words with currish sound. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 139 The Dogs of a Mungrel or Currish kinde. 1709Lond. Gaz. No. 4545/4 An English Spaniel Dog..his Ears Currish. c1875R. Christison Autobiog. (1885) I. 248 Rabies is rare here..though dogs both of good breeds and currish are extremely numerous.
2. fig. Like a cur in nature; snappish, snarling, quarrelsome; mean-spirited, base, ignoble.
c1460in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 65 A kurresshe herte, a mouthe þat is curteise, Ful wele ye wote thei be not accordyng. 1547Recorde Jud. Ur. A iij, Those currish stomakes, which can do nothyng but barke and brall. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iv. i. 292 To change this currish Iew. 1614T. Adams Devil's Banquet 286 His snarling and currish inuectiues. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. III. 275 Quarrelsome and currish People that bark and snarl at one another. 1820Byron tr. Morgante Maggiore xxxiv, Currish renegade! 1888J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge II. xiii, His currish nature prompted him to strike where no blow would be returned. |