Currish

Definition: Currish

Currish

Adjective

1. Base and cowardly.

2. Resembling a cur; snarling and rude.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "currish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Crosswords: Currish

Arabic 

‏مشاكس (aggressive, bitchy, cantankerous, contentious, dissentious, fresh, obstreperous, ornery, petulant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rowdy, sorehead, termagant, truculent), ‏هجين (colored, coloured, crossbred, half breed, half caste, hybrid), ‏دنئ (loon, low down, mean, obsequious, rank, scurvy, seamy, servile, sleazy, stinking). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кучешки (canine, doggish, doggy), мръсен (bawdy, dingy, dirt, dirty, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unwashed, vile), заядлив (argumentative, bellicose, captious, carping, combative, contradictious, contradictory, doggish, mordant, nagging, peevish, provoking, spleenful, troublesome, vixenish), долен (abject, base, bottom, contemptible, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inferior, iniquitous, low, lower, low-grade, mangy, mean, mean-spirited, rascal, ratty, reptile, rotten, scaly, scurvy, shady, under, unworthy, vile, villainous). (various references)

Czech

podlý (base, contemptible, ignoble, lowdown, mean, shabby, sordid, ugly, villainous, wicked). (various references)

Farsi 

فرومایه (Abject, Base, Brassy, Ignoble, Knave, Low, Vile), پست (Abacinate, Abject, Cheap, Common, Despicable, Earthborn, Humble, Infamous, Inferior, Lily, Little, Mail, Menial, Peevish, Poor, Runty, Ungenerous, Venal, Vile, Villain, Villainous, Vulgar, Wretch, Wretched), غرغرکننده , ستیزه جو (Contentious, Contestant, Intractable, Pugilist, Quarrelsome, Scrappy, Striver). (various references)

French

métis, gourde, balourd, ballot. (various references)

German

bissig (acrimonious, bitchy, edgy, fierce, prickly, ratty, scathing, snappily, snappish, snappy, sour, vicious, waspish). (various references)

Hungarian

zsémbes (churlish, crabby, cross-grained, crusty, disgruntled, grouchy, grousing, gruff, grumbler, grumbling, grumpy, john blunt, like a bear with a sore head, nagging, shrewd, shrewish, snapper, snappish, surly, testy, vixenly). (various references)

Indonesian

bengis (cruel, curt, pitiless, ruthless, violent). (various references)

Italian

spregevole (abject, contemptible, degraded, despicable, mangy, mean), meschino (base, beggarly, mean, measly, miserable, narrow, paltry, petty, poor, scanty, shabby, small minded, sordid, sorry, wretched). (various references)

Pig Latin

urrishcay.(various references)

Portuguese

rabugento (acrimonious, atrabilious, brutal, criss-cross, crusty, faultfinding, fiddle-faddle, fractious, fretful, frumpish, grouty, gruff, harsh, moody, morose, peevish, pettish, querulous, rough, shrewish, snuffy, sour, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy, unkind, unpleasant), intratável (crab, crabbed, crabby, cross-grained, fractious, intractable, kittle, restive, snappish, snappy, sullen, surly, unapproachable, uncompromising, unmanageable, unsociable), inferior (bad, below, blanket, bottom, brutish, catchpenny, cheap, coarse, common, corny, dependant, dependent, ground floor, hereinafter, inelaborate, inferior, less, lesser, low, mean, menial, minor, nether, poor, subordinate, trashy, under, undermost, unequal, wishy-washy), impertinente (arrogant, brash, cantankerous, impertinent, mumpish, peevish, pernickety, pettish, petulant, querulous, rat, ratty, saucy, snappish, snappy, techy, testy, tetchy). (various references)

Romanian

câinesc (beastly, canine, doggish, doggy, dog's, harsh), prost crescut (crude, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, mannerless, unmannerly), grosolan (boorish, broad, brutish, churlish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crass, crude, elephantine, flagrant, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, trivial, unaccomplished, unmannerly, vulgar), de javrã, arţãgos (cantankerous, contradictious, crabbed, cross-grained, crusty, fractious, gruff, peevish, pettish, quarrelsome, snappy). (various references)

Russian 

дурно воспитанный (cubbish, ill bred, ill-bred, mannerless, underbred). (various references)

Spanish

bruto (a b c, a.b.c., abc, beast, brute, brutish, coarse, crude, gross, raw, sod, stupid). (various references)

Swedish

som en byracka, grälsjuk (cantankerous, contentious, quarrelsome, shrewish), gemen (accustomed, base, customary, dirty, filthy, foul, friendly, ignoble, infamous, low, low down, lowercase, low-minded, mean, odious, scurvy, sociable, used to, usual, wicked, wonted). (various references)

Ukrainian

сварливий (angular, cantankerous, contentious, doggish, frumpish, grumpy, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, peevish, pugnacious, quarreling, quarrelling, quarrelsome, shrewish, termagant, ugly), буркотливий (acidulated, acidulous, capernoited, crabbed, criss cross, cross-grained, fumbling, grouchy, nagging, sourish, testy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cắn cảu. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "currish": currishly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Currish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cerish, Cirith, curagh, curraghs, Currah, curras, Curric, kurish. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chirrs, churrs, cirrus.

-2 letters: chirr, churr, crush, cuish, currs, shirr.

-3 letters: chis, cris, crus, curr, curs, huic, ichs, rhus, rich, rush, shri, such, uric.

-4 letters: chi, cis, cur, hic, his, ich, sic, sir, sri.

-5 letters: hi, is, sh, si, uh, us.

+1 letter: chirrups, scirrhus.

+2 letters: currishly, scirrhous, superrich.

+3 letters: hurricanes, scirrhuses, squirarchy.

+4 letters: chiaroscuro, chirurgeons, curatorship, haircutters, squirearchy, surcharging.

+5 letters: archesporium, archosaurian, bunchberries, charcuteries, chartularies, chiaroscuros, curatorships, peritrichous, repurchasing, squirarchies.