curship en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkɜː(ɹ)ʃɪp/
Etymology
From cur + -ship.
Meanings
- (obsolete, uncountable) The state of being a cur
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(uncountable) 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: