"currish" meaning in English

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "currishly"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "currishness"
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  "etymology_text": "From cur + -ish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more currish",
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        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most currish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "Pertaining to a cur or mongrel."
      ],
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        [
          "cur",
          "cur"
        ],
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          "mongrel",
          "mongrel"
        ]
      ]
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "more enfierced through his curriſh play,\n Him ſternely grypt, and haling to and fro,\n To ouerthrow him ſtrongly did aſſay […].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:",
          "text": "Gratiano:\nO, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!\nAnd for thy life let justice be accused.\nThou almost makest me waver in my faith,\nTo hold opinion with Pythagoras,\nThat souls of animals infuse themselves\nInto the trunks of men: thy currish spirit\nGovern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,\nEven from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,\nAnd, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,\nInfused itself in thee; for thy desires\nAre wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 1, member 3:",
          "text": "God's vengeance, and all the plagues of Egypt come not upon us, since we are so currish one towards another, so respectless of God and our neighbours, and by our crying sins pull these miseries upon our own heads.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Ignoble, mean-spirited."
      ],
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          "ignoble"
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        "(now rare) Ignoble, mean-spirited."
      ],
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        "archaic"
      ]
    }
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkəːɹɪʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "doggish"
    }
  ],
  "word": "currish"
}

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    {
      "word": "currishly"
    },
    {
      "word": "currishness"
    }
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From cur + -ish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more currish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most currish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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      "glosses": [
        "Pertaining to a cur or mongrel."
      ],
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          "cur",
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          "mongrel",
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        ]
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        {
          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "more enfierced through his curriſh play,\n Him ſternely grypt, and haling to and fro,\n To ouerthrow him ſtrongly did aſſay […].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:",
          "text": "Gratiano:\nO, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!\nAnd for thy life let justice be accused.\nThou almost makest me waver in my faith,\nTo hold opinion with Pythagoras,\nThat souls of animals infuse themselves\nInto the trunks of men: thy currish spirit\nGovern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,\nEven from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,\nAnd, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,\nInfused itself in thee; for thy desires\nAre wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 1, member 3:",
          "text": "God's vengeance, and all the plagues of Egypt come not upon us, since we are so currish one towards another, so respectless of God and our neighbours, and by our crying sins pull these miseries upon our own heads.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Ignoble, mean-spirited."
      ],
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        "(now rare) Ignoble, mean-spirited."
      ],
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        "archaic"
      ]
    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "doggish"
    }
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  "word": "currish"
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