Cur means a dog that is not a pure breed. People often use it to talk about dogs that look dirty or bad. It can sound rude or mean.
The cur barked loudly at the stranger.
He found a cur in the abandoned house.
Cur can be used to call a person mean or bad. It is an old-fashioned insult for someone who is cowardly or unkind.
He is a cur for lying to us all.
Don't be a cur and face your problems.
Cur can mean a dog trained to work with animals like sheep or for hunting. This meaning is older and less common.
The cur helped herd the cattle on the farm.
He trained his cur for hunting foxes.
As a verb, cur means to move quickly and quietly to avoid attention. It is very rare and mostly old or dialect language.
The fox curred away into the woods.
He curred from the angry crowd quickly.
Cur can mean a very bad or wicked person, often used in older stories or formal speech. It shows strong dislike or anger.
That cur betrayed his closest friend.
She called him a cur for cheating.
In slang, cur can mean someone who does bad things or behaves badly. It's not polite and is used to show disapproval.
Don't be a cur; help your friends.
He's acting like a cur today.
