cur - transcription, translation and pronunciation online

Transcription and pronunciation of the word "cur" in British and American variants. Detailed translation and examples.

cur
[kɜːr]
[kɝː]
Definitions
noun
an aggressive dog or one that is in poor condition, especially a mongrel.
Just as the evening shades were drawing on the landlady observed a cur dog, belonging to a well known cattle jobber and farmer, emerge from the kitchen quarters bearing something in its jaws.
abbreviation
currency.
Examples
Malcolm still plans to take her on summer searches, however, along with his new rescue dog, a little Lakeland collie cur , Spindrift.
And our spy is in position, waiting for the inevitable arrival of the little cur .
Just as the evening shades were drawing on the landlady observed a cur dog, belonging to a well known cattle jobber and farmer, emerge from the kitchen quarters bearing something in its jaws.
A little man with splendid white hair imitated a cur baying at the moon.
The Court of Appeal agreed with the trial judge that the language used by the farmer in the two conversations, which included calling the farm hand a liar and a bastard and a cur , justified the farm hand in leaving.
The coyote-dog barked viciously at Jack, and it was all he could do not to unleash his full fury on the cur .
A concubine, a low cur , a cheat and a fraud would be decent things by comparison with being called a liar.
When she tells Alfonso that Eric is on board and cannot step on Bucca, he starts calling the men to retrieve the Avalonian cur from the Lucky Dog to be arrested for stealing from the Counsel!
As you poke the dog, it becomes more and more likely that the cur will attack you - at which point you'll have to shoot it.
Sir Stephen may have been an egocentric cur , but he, at least, was noble!