英语词汇cur的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	cur
词源	cur. This word, for a mean mongrel or worthless dog, is asso- ciated with the growling of such dogs. Used by Spenser in the The Faerie Queene (1589), cur is an old word that derives from the Scandinavian kurra, “to snarl or grumble.”
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