curdog

plural curdogs

1. A cur
   1. archaicderogatoryA contemptible, inferior, or cowardly dog.
   2. archaicderogatoryfigurativelyA person with these qualities.

      Coward, go with thy Caitive soul, thou Cur Dog.

      1679, John Fletcher, "The Mad Lover", in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, page 243, col. 1

   3. archaicA working or sheepdog

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

      1591, Edmund Spenser, "Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubbard's Tale", line 294, in Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie