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Webster 1913 Edition
Currish
Cur′rish
(k?r′r?sh)
, Adj.
[From
Cur
.] Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal.
Thy
Governed a wolf.
– currish
spiritGoverned a wolf.
Shakespeare
Cur′rish-ly
, adv.
Cur′rish-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Currish
CURRISH
,Adj.
Definition 2024
currish
currish
English
Adjective
currish (comparative more currish, superlative most currish)
- Pertaining to a cur or mongrel.
- (now rare) Ignoble, mean-spirited.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.4:
- more enfierced through his currish play, / Him sternely grypt, and haling to and fro, / To ouerthrow him strongly did assay […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.1.3:
- God's vengeance, and all the plagues of Egypt come not upon us, since we are so currish one towards another, so respectless of God and our neighbours, and by our crying sins pull these miseries upon our own heads.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.4: