Currish vs Churlish - What's the difference?
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Pertaining to a cur or mongrel.
Ignoble, mean-spirited.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.4:
*, 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.
of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic
* 1996 , Jeet Heer, Gravitas , Autumn 1996
rude, surly, ungracious
stingy or grudging
(of soil) difficult to till, lacking pliancy; unmanageable
*1730–1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland
*:Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread,t
*:And force a churlish soil for scanty bread.
Currish is a related term of churlish.
As adjectives the difference between currish and churlish
is that currish is pertaining to a cur or mongrel while churlish is of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic.currish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- more enfierced through his currish play, / Him sternely grypt, and haling to and fro, / To ouerthrow him strongly did assay […].
Synonyms
* doggishchurlish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- [...] the eloquence and truth of his tribute stands in marked contrast to Kramer's churlish caricature of Kael as a happy pig wallowing in the dirt.