You're a silly scaremonger, spreading a yarn like this, and a cur to boot for deserting your partner!
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Cur
//kɜː//
Synonyms for "cur" (45 found)
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Related words (22)
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48 translations across 22 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- пес noun (contemptible dog)
- помияр noun (contemptible dog)
Danish
2 entries- køter noun (contemptible dog)
- sjover noun (detestable person)
Dutch
2 entries- hondsvot noun (detestable person)
- mormel noun (contemptible dog)
Esperanto
1 entries- hundaĉo noun (contemptible dog)
Finnish
3 entries- lurjus noun (detestable person)
- piski noun (contemptible dog)
- rakki noun (contemptible dog)
French
4 entries- chien noun (detestable person)
- clebs noun (contemptible dog)
- clébard noun (contemptible dog)
- corniaud noun (contemptible dog)
Galician
4 entries- cuzo noun (contemptible dog)
- quisquelo noun (contemptible dog)
- tisco noun (contemptible dog)
- tus noun (contemptible dog)
German
2 entries- Köter noun (contemptible dog)
- Köter noun (detestable person)
Greek
2 entries- κοπρίτης noun (contemptible dog)
- κοπρίτης noun (detestable person)
Hungarian
1 entries- korcs kutya noun (contemptible dog)
Irish
4 entries- amhsán noun (contemptible dog)
- amhsóg noun (contemptible dog)
- draoidín noun (detestable person)
- maistín noun (detestable person)
Latin
1 entries- scelestus noun (detestable person)
Macedonian
2 entries- ла́нгач noun (contemptible dog)
- ла́нгач noun (detestable person)
Middle English
1 entries- dogge noun (detestable person)
Norwegian
1 entries- kjøter noun (contemptible dog)
Polish
1 entries- kundel noun (contemptible dog)
Portuguese
2 entries- rafeiro noun (contemptible dog)
- vira-lata noun (contemptible dog)
Romanian
2 entries- javră noun (contemptible dog)
- potaie noun (contemptible dog)
Russian
3 entries- дворняга noun (contemptible dog)
- ша́вка noun (contemptible dog)
- ша́вка noun (detestable person)
Spanish
2 entries- chucho noun (contemptible dog)
- quiltro noun (contemptible dog)
Swedish
1 entries- byracka noun (contemptible dog)
Yiddish
2 entries- כּלבֿ noun (contemptible dog)
- כּלבֿ noun (detestable person)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
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,
Source: wiktionary
you have many enemies, that know not why they are so, but, like to village-curs, bark when their fellows do.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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