curdog
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English cur-dogge, kurdogge, curredogge, equivalent to cur + dog.
Noun edit
curdog (plural curdogs)
- 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."