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cur

[kur] / kɜr /


NOUN
animal of mixed breed
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“The black mouth cur is the best dog out there,” said Payne.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 26, 2018

Young women would boast about being chatted up by the old cur at the local deli.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2016

Our Hei-Hei — a Pekingese cross, we believe — looks quite the cur in such well-bred circles.

From Time ● Jun. 15, 2016

An indignant Whitlam branded Fraser "Kerr's cur," and urged voters to "maintain the rage" at the ballot box.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2015

They were big fierce cur dogs that the settlers used for catching hogs and driving cattle and fighting coons out of the cornfields.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

But it’s not the dirty-looking curs that run, snarl, bark and gnash their teeth behind fences when a visitor approaches that one needs to fear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

“As a rule, they’re cowardly curs, anyway. Keep your eye right on them, that’s all.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

He has 20 dogs, black mouth curs, and uses three to four dogs in his performance.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 26, 2018

"Awakening fear, the poet-mobs howl round / A chant of quarrelling curs on the burning-ground."

From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2012

"I don't take orders from curs and villains."

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman




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