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cur dog

noun

South Midland and Southern U.S.
  1. a worthless dog; mongrel.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cur dog1

1200–50; Middle English cur dogge; curr, dog
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Example Sentences

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The Civil War — oh, that stray cur dog of a war.

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But she had been whipped like a cur dog, and run off down a back road after things.

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If after all it turned out that he had shot a cur dog belonging to that terrible poacher and one-time logger Baylay, it was going to make them a tremendous amount of trouble.

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If the following paragraph, which appeared in the Cumberland Pacquet, in January, 1817, may be believed, there was at least one dog which would not incur the wrath of either parson or dog-whipper:—“Mr. William Wood of Asby, parish of Arlecdon, has a cur dog which for these four years past has regularly attended church, if within hearing of the bells; and what is more singular, the animal never misses going to his master’s seat whether any of the family attend or not.â€

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Cur Dog forgot those strange impulses which bade him kill the sheep, and only remembered that here was a rabbit which was lawful prey.

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