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curdogs

curdogs is the plural of curdog.

Meaning of curdog

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

Questions about curdogs

What is curdogs the plural of?
Curdogs is the plural of curdog.

Words near curdogs in the dictionary

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

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