Meanings of currish in English

Then the currish way in which he took his licking added to the sport.

It was a currish image, suggestive of the choicest satisfaction.

Our ears are first assailed by a few shrill, currish barks at intervals, like the outpost firing of skirmishing parties.

Marry, she says your dog was a cur, and tells you currish thanks is good enough for such a present.

His face was unhealthy and currish, the eyes were malicious, and above his ears were combed two large tufts of glossy hair.

I wish she were in heaven if she could but entreat some power there to change the cruel temper of this currish Jew.

The last sort of dogs consisteth of the currish kind meet for many toys, of which the whappet or prick-eared cur is one.

Then I saw a thousand faces made currish by the cold, whence shuddering comes to me, and will always come, at frozen pools.

But now the case is otherwise, now he is in another frame, now his proud, stout, currish carriage, is come down; 'And he cried.'

Such an exhibition of currish cowardice and sullen bullying spite increases rather our wondering pity for its victim than our wondering sense of her degradation.

At the manor-house steps he found at last sufficient grace to say: "It was a currish thing to do; will you forgive me, Ardea?"

"You'll come back drunk again, you currish Herod," said Lukerya, looking at him angrily.

"Why don't you say 'currish' and be done with it?"