different between shapeless vs currish
shapeless
English
Etymology
shape +? -less
Adjective
shapeless (comparative more shapeless, superlative most shapeless)
- without a clearly defined or identifiable shape
Synonyms
- amorphous, formless; see also Thesaurus:amorphous
Translations
Anagrams
- phaseless
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currish
English
Etymology
From cur +? -ish.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?????/
Adjective
currish (comparative more currish, superlative most currish)
- Pertaining to a cur or mongrel.
- (now rare) Ignoble, mean-spirited.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.4:
- more enfierced through his currish play, / Him sternely grypt, and haling to and fro, / To ouerthrow him strongly did assay […].
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV scene i[1]:
- Gratiano:
- O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!
- And for thy life let justice be accused.
- Thou almost makest me waver in my faith,
- To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
- That souls of animals infuse themselves
- Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
- Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,
- Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
- And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,
- Infused itself in thee; for thy desires
- Are wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.4:
Synonyms
- doggish
Anagrams
- cirrhus
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