curdog

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English cur-dogge, kurdogge, curredogge, equivalent to cur +‎ dog.

Noun

curdog (plural curdogs)

1. A cur; a worthless dog.
   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5‎^[1]:

     Thereto right well this curdog, by my coste, (Meaning the Foxe,) will serve my sheepe to gather, And drive to follow after their belwether."

Anagrams

• codrug