curdog
English
Etymology
From Middle English cur-dogge, kurdogge, curredogge, equivalent to cur + dog.
Noun
curdog (plural curdogs)
- A cur; a worthless dog.
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
- Thereto right well this curdog, by my coste, (Meaning the Foxe,) will serve my sheepe to gather, And drive to follow after their belwether."
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Anagrams
- codrug