currish

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In a moment I was beside her, riding bare-back, with Maisie clasping my waist, as indeed we had often ridden before—though never so perilously, nor yet with such a currish retinue yowling at our tail.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

No man can serve two masters, and though to be the victim of the rival ambitions of greater men than yourself is no uncommon fate, it is a currish one.

From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Birrell, Augustine

Such rival Leos flourish, And mutual hatred nourish, With a snapping almost currish, upon Afric's shore.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 2, 1891 by Various

Let Aesop fable in a winter's night;     His currish riddle sorts not with this place.

From King Henry VI, Part 3 by Shakespeare, William

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

From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed