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Currish vs Boisterous - What's the difference?

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Currish is a related term of boisterous.


As adjectives the difference between currish and boisterous

is that currish is pertaining to a cur or mongrel while boisterous is full of energy; exuberant; noisy.

currish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a cur or mongrel.
  • Ignoble, mean-spirited.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.4:
    • more enfierced through his currish play, / Him sternely grypt, and haling to and fro, / To ouerthrow him strongly did assay […].
  • *, II.1.3:
  • *:God's vengeance, and all the plagues of Egypt come not upon us, since we are so currish one towards another, so respectless of God and our neighbours, and by our crying sins pull these miseries upon our own heads.

    • Synonyms

    * doggish

    boisterous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Full of energy; exuberant; noisy.
  • Characterized by violence and agitation; wild; stormy.
  • Having or resembling animal exuberance.