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curdog

curdog noun: a contemptible, inferior, or cowardly dog.

Noun

curdog (plural curdogs)

  1. (archaic, derogatory) A contemptible, inferior, or cowardly dog.
  2. (archaic, derogatory, figuratively) A person with these qualities.
    • Coward, go with thy Caitive soul, thou Cur Dog.1679, John Fletcher, "The Mad Lover", in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, page 243, col. 1
  3. (archaic) A working or sheepdog
    • Thereto right well this Curdog by my coste
      (Meaning the Foxe) will serve, my sheepe to gather
      And drive to follow after their Belwether.1591, Edmund Spenser, "Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubbard's Tale", line 294, in Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie

Forms of curdog

pluralcurdogs

Origin of curdog

From Middle English cur-dogge, kurdogge, curredogge, equivalent to cur + dog.

Questions about curdog

What does curdog mean?
Curdog means a contemptible, inferior, or cowardly dog.
What part of speech is curdog?
Curdog is a noun.
What is the plural of curdog?
The plural of curdog is curdogs.

Words near curdog in the dictionary

  1. curdless
  2. curdleth
  3. curdling
  4. curdlings
  5. curdly
  6. curdog
  7. curdogs
  8. Curdridge
  9. curds
  10. curds and whey
  11. curdwort

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