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A fawning, mean-spirited fellow, a crop-tailed dog (latin, curtus, crop-tailed. French, court; our curt). According to forest laws, a man who had no right to the privilege of the chase was obliged to cut off the tail of his dog. Hence, a degenerate dog or man is called a cur.

“What would you have, you curs,

That like nor peace nor war?”


Shakespeare: Coriolanus, i. 1.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Cup Tosser
Cup of Vows (The)
Cups
Cupar
Cupar Justice
Cupboard Love
Cupid
Cupid and Psyche
Cupid’s Golden Arrow
Cupidon (Le jeune)
Cur
Curate
Curé de Meudon
Curetes
Curfew Bell
Curmudgeon
Currant
Current
Currente Calamo (Latin)
Currer Bell
Curry Favour

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