Cur

Cur as slang refers to a type of random-bred, or mixed-breed dog. This article deals with Cur as a functional grouping of pure breeds.

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Famous quotes containing the word cur:

    “She had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her, but she had been whipped like a cur dog, and run off down a back road after things.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy cur you meet, carry it for the time needed for it to love it and you it, then throw it away.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)