cur
noun/kɜː(r)/
/kɜːr/
(old-fashioned, disapproving)- an aggressive dog, especially a mongrelTopics Animalsc2Word OriginMiddle English (in the general sense ‘dog’): probably originally in cur-dog, perhaps from Old Norse kurr ‘grumbling’.
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