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Definition of "currish" [cur•rish]

  • Snarling and bad-tempered. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "currish" in a sentence
  • "Ambrose finished the narrative with a broken voice indeed, but as one who had more self-command than his brother, perhaps than his uncle, whose exclamations became bitter and angry as he heard of the treatment the boys had experienced from their half-brother, who, as he said, he had always known as a currish mean-spirited churl, but scarce such as this."
  • ""Why don't you say 'currish' and be done with it?""
  • "The simile, though a currish one, will hold good in its application to the human race."