currish
/ˈkəːɹɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to a cur or mongrel.
Example Sentences
- "more enfierced through his curriſh play, Him ſternely grypt, and haling to and fro, To ouerthrow him ſtrongly did aſſay […]."
- "Gratiano: O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog! And for thy life let justice be accused. Thou almost makest me waver in my faith, To hold opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter, Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet, And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam, Infused itself in thee; for thy desires Are wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English cur Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English currish From cur + -ish.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈkəːɹɪʃ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more currish (comparative)
most currish (superlative)