curship
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]curship (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The state of being a cur
- someone who is currish.
- 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
- How durst he, I say, oppose thy curship!
References
[edit]- “curship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.