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Currish

Currish \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.

Wiktionary
currish

a. 1 Pertaining to a cur or mongrel. 2 (context now rare English) ignoble, mean-spirited.

WordNet
currish
  1. adj. base and cowardly

  2. resembling a cur; snarling and rude

Usage examples of "currish".

Yet would he not perswaded be for ought,Ne from his currish will awhit reclame.