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Currish vs Turbulent - What's the difference?

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Currish is a related term of turbulent.


As adjectives the difference between currish and turbulent

is that currish is pertaining to a cur or mongrel while turbulent is violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.

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

    turbulent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.
  • Being in, or causing, disturbance or unrest.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
  • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.}}

    Derived terms

    * turbulently * turbulent flow