The word "cur" is an acceptable and commonly used word in written English
It can be used as both a noun and a verb. Noun: The old man had a cur living in his backyard. Verb: The man curbed his enthusiasm for the project.
WALL STREET, as the road where Kinshasa's black marketeers trade in cur rencies is known, was eerily quiet last week.
Malcolm Fraser, who replaced him after the Coup, was "Kerr's cur".
They have the power to cause embarrassment, little else.Crime and non-punishmentA cur that turns on its master is liable to bare its fangs again.
Mr Fraser led the Liberals to a landslide election victory, and won two more elections after it.Mr Whitlam's bitter branding of Mr Fraser, before cheering supporters, as "Kerr's cur" remains one of the most dramatic images of Australian politics.
The "Kerr's cur" tag lingered in the nation's memory for decades, although years after his and Whitlam's parliamentary careers ended the two political foes became friends.
An indignant Whitlam branded Fraser as "Kerr's cur" and urged voters to "maintain the rage" at the ballot box.
Are there important things we can learn about our cur-rent assumptions about biography by looking at examples from the past?
Later, he marked cur-out places with alphabeth.
The cur- rent state of the plantings can be seen in the top photo.
I woke an hour later, opened the cur-tains, and saw a palm tree.
Strife on Radio 5 Live on Friday, when the film critic Mark Kermode rebuked Shelagh Fogerty for introducing him as "Commode" rather than "Cur-mode", which he prefers.
