Cur vs Coward - What's the difference?
cur | coward |
(archaic) A mongrel or inferior dog.
* 1919 ,
(archaic) A detestable person.
A person who lacks courage.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
Cowardly.
*, II.17:
*:It is a coward and servile humour, for a man to disguise and hide himselfe under a maske, and not dare to shew himselfe as he is.
* Shakespeare
* Prior
(heraldry, of a lion) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
English words suffixed with -ard
As a noun cur
is heart.As a proper noun coward is
.cur
English
Noun
(en noun)- "You have no more spirit than a mongrel cur . You lie down on the ground and ask people to trample on you."
See also
* bitsa, bitser * mongrel * muttAnagrams
* * ----coward
English
Noun
(en noun)- He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward , he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.
Synonyms
* chicken * See alsoDerived terms
* cowardly * cowardiceAdjective
(en adjective)- He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
- Invading fears repel my coward joy.