cur
3
9.2
- noun
- /kɜr/
- Archaic
:
chucho
- She loved every cur dog that strayed into the neighborhood.
- cur dog
- big cur
- Mountain curs
Examples
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How's that mangy cur of yours holding up?
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The mottled cur limps over, lays his mangy jaw in my lap, and offers his fleas.
Fiction book (1993) -
No Gypsy cur could make a sound like that.
Fiction book (1998) -
"That dog was a cur." "What did I tell you?" said Potter.
Fiction book (2002) -
- Look at the nasty little cur!
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Sometimes a cur backed down when it saw that its intended victim would stand and defend itself.
Fiction book (1992) -
The cur stretched across my threshold, growled, and would not have let him pass.
Fiction book (1993) -
In the boxes are eight hundred pounds of Alaskan husky sled dogs, strategically bred curs built for speed.
Fiction book (1999) -
Curs—"yaller dogs," omnipresent in the countryside—wander on and off the tracks, watched by impassive Indians from their circular sod huts.
Fiction book (1991) -
That cur barks fiercely whenever someone approaches the yard.
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Cur probably comes from an old word for a low, sick or mangy dog, so it originally meant an aggressive or mixed-breed dog.