Currish vs Turbulent - 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.
Violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.
Being in, or causing, disturbance or unrest.
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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)- more enfierced through his currish play, / Him sternely grypt, and haling to and fro, / To ouerthrow him strongly did assay […].
Synonyms
* doggishturbulent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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.}}