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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /kɜː/
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• General-American: /kɝ/
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• Scotland: /kʌr/
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• New-Zealand: /køː/
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• /keː/ Liverpool, fair–fur merger
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• /kɛː/ Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)
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• homophone: Kerr (fern–fir–fur merger)
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• homophone: care (fair–fur merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: K ER1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English curre (“watchdog, small hunting dog, mongrel, mutt”), perhaps of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, possibly from Old Norse kurr (“grumbling”), itself of imitative origin. Compare Middle Dutch corre (“domestic dog, yard dog, watch-dog”), dialectal Dutch korre (“dog, yard dog”), dialectal Swedish kurre (“a dog”). Compare also Old Norse kurra (“to growl; grumble”), Middle Low German kurren, korren (“to growl”). Compare also Middle Dutch querie (“female dog, bitch”).

48 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: пес (pes) — contemptible dog
• Bulgarian: помияр (pomijar) — contemptible dog
• Danish: køter — contemptible dog
• Dutch: mormel — contemptible dog
• Esperanto: hundaĉo — contemptible dog
• Finnish: rakki — contemptible dog
• Finnish: piski — contemptible dog
• French: clébard — contemptible dog
• French: corniaud — contemptible dog
• French: roquet — contemptible dog
• French: clebs — contemptible dog
• Galician: tus — contemptible dog
• Galician: tisco — contemptible dog
• Galician: cuzo — contemptible dog
• Galician: quisquelo — contemptible dog
• German: Köter — contemptible dog
• Greek: κοπρίτης (koprítis) — contemptible dog
• Hungarian: korcs kutya — contemptible dog
• Irish: amhsán — contemptible dog
• Irish: amhsóg — contemptible dog
• Macedonian: ла́нгач (lángač) — contemptible dog
• Norwegian: kjøter — contemptible dog
• Polish: kundel — contemptible dog
• Portuguese: vira-lata — contemptible dog
• Portuguese: rafeiro — contemptible dog
• Romanian: javră — contemptible dog
• Romanian: potaie — contemptible dog
• Russian: дворняга (dvornjaga) — contemptible dog
• Russian: ша́вка (šávka) — contemptible dog
• Spanish: chucho — contemptible dog
• Spanish: quiltro — contemptible dog
• Swedish: byracka — contemptible dog
• Yiddish: כּלבֿ (keylev) — contemptible dog
• Danish: sjover — detestable person
• Dutch: hondsvot — detestable person
• Finnish: lurjus — detestable person
• French: chien — detestable person
• French: roquet — detestable person
• German: Köter — detestable person
• Greek: κοπρίτης (koprítis) — detestable person
• Irish: suarachán — detestable person
• Irish: maistín — detestable person
• Irish: draoidín — detestable person
• Latin: scelestus — detestable person
• Macedonian: ла́нгач (lángač) — detestable person
• Middle English: dogge — detestable person
• Russian: ша́вка (šávka) — detestable person
• Yiddish: כּלבֿ (keylev) — detestable person