Cur

//kɜː//

"Cur" in a Sentence (11 examples)

You're a silly scaremonger, spreading a yarn like this, and a cur to boot for deserting your partner!

A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel; Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write,

you have many enemies, that know not why they are so, but, like to village-curs, bark when their fellows do.

A Churliſh Envious Curr vvas gotten into a Manger, and there lay Growling and Snarling to keep the Horſes from their Provender. The Dog Eat None himſelf, and yet rather Ventur'd the Starving his Own Carcaſe then he would ſuffer any thing elfe to be the Better for't.

He threw the soapsuds skilfully over a wretched little yellow cur he had, then turning his face to the agent's house, he shouted from the distance, "All the men gone last night!"

"You have no more spirit than a mongrel cur. You lie down on the ground and ask people to trample on you."

This butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd, and I have not the power to muzzle him.

"Who 's a cur - now - hey?"

Clayton interrupted him. “Stop!” he cried. “Stop! What manner of cur are you that you traduce the character of a good woman whom we believe dead! God!”

Then send our Curs to gather up the Sheep

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"He's a good sharp cur," or "a good cur," is said of any dog that barks at strangers and guards his master's property.

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