Word Meanings - CURRISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal. Thy currish spirit Governed a wolf. Shak. Some currish plot, -- some trick. Lockhart.

Additional info about word: CURRISH

Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal. Thy currish spirit Governed a wolf. Shak. Some currish plot, -- some trick. Lockhart. -- Cur"rish*ly, adv. -- Cur"rish*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CURRISH)

• Cynical
• Sarcastic
• snarling
• snappish
• sneering
• cross-grained
• currish
• carping

Related words: (words related to CURRISH)

• CARPET
  packing cloth, rug , LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card ; cf. 1. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be
• CARPOGENIC
  Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.
• CARPETBAG
  A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.
• CARPER
  One who carps; a caviler. Shak.
• CARPETING
  1. The act of covering with carpets. 2. Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general. The floor was covered with rich carpeting. Prescott.
• CARPOLOGY
  That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit.
• SNEER
  1. To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression. 2. To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively. I could be content to be a little sneared at. Pope. 3. To show mirth awkwardly. Tatler. Syn.
• CARPENTER
  An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc. Syn. -- Carpenter, Joiner. The carpenter frames and puts together roofs, partitions, floors, and other structural parts of a building. The joiner Supplies stairs, doors
• CARPHOLOGY
  See FLACCILLATION
• CARPOPHORE
  A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.
• SNAPPISH
  1. Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur. 2. Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish. The taunting address of a snappish missanthrope. Jeffrey. -- Snap"pish*ly, adv.
• CARPOLOGIST
  One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.
• CARPUS
  The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.
• SNEERINGLY
  In a sneering manner.
• CYNICALNESS
  The quality of being cynical.
• CARPING
  Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious. -- Carp"ing*ly, adv.
• CARPOPHYTE
  A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc. Note: The division of alge and fungi into four classes called Carpophytes, Oöphytes, Protophytes, and Zygophytes (or
• CARPOLITE
  A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.
• CARPALE
  One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.
• CARPEL; CARPELLUM
  A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore.
• HYPOCARP; HYPOCARPIUM
  A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.
• SYNCARPIUM
  See SYNCARP
• SNARL
  To form raised work upon the outer surface of by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
• EXOCARP
  The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.
• MERICARP
  One carpel of an umbelliferous fruit. See Cremocarp.
• ACARPELLOUS
  Having no carpels.
• INSNARL
  To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl. Cotgrave.
• INOCARPIN
  A red, gummy, coloring matter, extracted from the colorless juice of the Otaheite chestnut .
• INTERMETACARPAL
  Between the metacarpal bones.
• ENSNARL
  To entangle. Spenser.
• ACANTHOCARPOUS
  Having the fruit covered with spines.
• PERICARP
  The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.
• ACARPOUS
  Not producing fruit; unfruitful.