curchy
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɜːt͡ʃi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɝt͡ʃi/
Noun
curchy (plural curchies)
- (later dialectal) Obsolete form of curtsey.
- 1551, Robert Crowley, Philargyrie of greate Britayne, London: Robert Crowly, page 49:
- He made curchie / And lowted to the grownde / Than ſayde the lad / I am ryght glad / I haue your loꝛdſhipe founde […]
- 1708, Marius D'Aſſigny, “The Diviſion”, in An Antidote againſt the Pernicious Errors of the Anabaptiſts, second edition, London: W. Taylor and H. Clements, pages 34-35:
- And they ought not only with a nod or bow or curchy anſwer the Miniſter's Queſtions, but in expreſs terms as order'd by the Rubrick […]
- 1890, “Gettin' a Nail Put in the Hoss's Shu”, in Sarah P. McLean Greene, Vesty of the Basins, New York: Harper Brothers, page 34:
- 'Mis' Garrison,' says Fluke, 'I'll drive ye 'round wherever ye wants me to, but I'll be d—d if I'll curchy to ye!' So she fetched along an imported one.