Definition of "cur-dog" []

• A cur; a worthless dog. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Why, we have an untrusty, worthless cur-dog in the fort here, that has been named Simon Girty, in compliment to you -- he is so like you in every thing that is ugly, wicked and mean."
• "They whirled rapidly by in a turmoil of dust, and clink, and cur-dog yelp, but not so rapidly as to prevent Sam from perceiving the terrible degradation to which a gentleman-dog had been subjected."
• "There was a mysterious kind of a smile -- if it might not better be called a grin or grimace -- upon his visage, but of all the throng that beheld him not an individual appears to have possessed insight enough to detect the illusive character of the stranger, except a little child and a cur-dog."