cur:
(plural: ‘curs‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ in this word is pronounced with a ‘k’ sound and the letters ‘ur’ rhyme with the letters ‘ur’ in “urge” or the letter ‘wor’ in “word”)
a badly behaved worthless person;
a nasty person who likes to quarrel;
a coward,
What a cur!
e.g.
I hate to talk to our new neighbour; she’s such a cur!
Never fear the curs because they usually talk boldly to hid their cowardliness.
All her friends wonder why Susan, a very decent and respectable person, makes friends with such low grade curs.
Note: A more common meaning is a bad tempered owner-less dog of worthless breed; a mongrel. And also with a full stop/period after it — cur. — is used as a short form for currency which means money.
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