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Curse. World English Historical Dictionary

Curse. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Curse NOT TO CARE or BE WORTH A CURSE, phr. (common).—To care or be worth little—or nothing at all. [CURSE may either = (1) the wild cherry; or (2) a corruption of A.S. cerse, watercress. Cf., CONTINENTAL (q.v.).

1   1362.  LANGLAND, The Vision of Piers Ploughman.        Wisdom and witt nowe is NOT WORTH A KERSE, But if it be carded with cootis as clothers Kemble their woole.

2   1838.  DICKENS, Nicholas Nickleby, ch. xvi., p. 124. With regard to such questions … which one can’t be expected to CARE A CURSE ABOUT.

3   1881.  G. R. SIMS, Dagonet Ballads (‘In the Workhouse’). I CARE NOT A CURSE for the guardians.

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