Defn: An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.
A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro. W. Irving.
CURMUDGEONLY
Cur*mudg"eon*ly, a.
Defn: Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.
CURMURRING
Cur*mur"ring (kr-mr"rng), n.
Defn: Murmuring; grumbling; — sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes. [Scot.] Burns.
CURR
Curr (kr), v. i. Etym: [Prob. imitative.]
Defn: To coo. [Scot.]
The owlets hoot, the owlets curr. Wordsworth.
CURRANT Cur"rant (kr"rant), n. Etym: [F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant (in sense 1), from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving the name from its resemblance to that grape.]
1. A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; — used in cookery.
2. The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.