Surly vs Currish - What's the difference?
surly | currish | Related terms |
(obsolete) Lordly, arrogant, supercilious.
Irritated, bad-tempered, unfriendly.
Threatening, menacing, gloomy.
(obsolete) In an arrogant or supercilious manner.
* 1623 , , Julius Caesar , I.iii,
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.
Surly is a related term of currish.
As adjectives the difference between surly and currish
is that surly is (obsolete) lordly, arrogant, supercilious while currish is pertaining to a cur or mongrel.As an adverb surly
is (obsolete) in an arrogant or supercilious manner.surly
English
Adjective
(er)- The surly weather put us all in a bad mood.
Adverb
(er)- Against the Capitol I met a lion / Who glazed upon me, and went surly
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 […].