Read full poem →The snappish cur (the passenger's annoy)
Close at my heel with yelping treble flies;
Dictionary Entry
A contemptible or inferior dog.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. curdeus current curnon curdog curcur percur little
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Poetry examples for “cur”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And the waltz from the ballroom I heard,
When I called him a low, sneaking cur.
And the wail of the violins stirred
Read full poem →Through scattered fangs a few snarled words and close,
As if a cur were chary of its bark.
Read full poem →'Nam cur rogati sponte recte[41] censetis
Ni mersus alto uiueret fomes corde.'
Read full poem →Which when I could not get, I thought it here:
That apprehension cur'd so well my foot,
That I can walk to heav'n well near.
Read full poem →Quas MANIBUS premit illa duas insensa papillas
Cur mihi sit DIGITO tangere, amata, nefas?
Read full poem →_Straf._ This gentle Maxwell!--Do not touch him, Bryan!
[_To the_ Presbyterians.] Whichever cur of you will carry this
Escapes his fellow's fate. None saves his life?
Read full poem →An’ Learning in a woody dance,
An’ that fell cur ca’d Common Sense,
That bites sae sair,
Read full poem →Don Carlos his pockets so amply had fill'd,
That his mange was quite cur'd, and his lice were all kill'd:
But Apollo had seen his face on the stage,