Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A low on the ear.
- noun A snarling, worthless dog; a cur.
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Examples
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The last sort of dogs consisteth of the currish kind meet for many toys, of which the whappet or prick-eared cur is one.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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The last sort of dogs consisteth of the currish kind meet for many toys, of which the whappet or prick-eared cur is one.
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