different between unskillful vs currish
unskillful
English
Alternative forms
- unskilful
Etymology
un- +? skillful
Adjective
unskillful (comparative more unskillful, superlative most unskillful)
- Not skillful.
Related terms
- unskilled
- unskillfully
Translations
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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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