curship

noun — 2 senses

curship

noun

/ˈkɜː(ɹ)ʃɪp/

Etymology From cur + -ship.

1

Obsolete The state of being a cur

2

someone who is currish.

  • How durst he, I say, oppose thy curship!1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:

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