Hypertext Webster Gateway: "currish"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Currish \Cur"rish\ (k?r"r?sh), a. [From {Cur}.]
Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a
cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also
malicious; malignant; brutal.

Thy currish spirit Governed a wolf. --Shak.

Some currish plot, -- some trick. --Lockhart.
-- {Cur"rish*ly}, adv. -- {Cur"rish*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

currish
adj 1: base and cowardly
2: resembling a cur; snarling and rude


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