Dictionary entry

Currish

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.