curchy

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curchy (plural curchies)

  1. (later dialectal) Obsolete form of curtsey.
    • 1551, Robert Crowley, Philargyrie of greate Britayne, London: Robert Crowly, page 49:
      He made curchie / And lowted to the grownde / Than ſayde the lad / I am ryght glad / I haue your loꝛdſhipe founde []
    • 1708, Marius D'Aſſigny, “The Diviſion”, in An Antidote againſt the Pernicious Errors of the Anabaptiſts, 2nd edition, London: W. Taylor and H. Clements, pages 34–35:
      And they ought not only with a nod or bow or curchy anſwer the Miniſter's Queſtions, but in expreſs terms as order'd by the Rubrick []
    • 1890, “Gettin' a Nail Put in the Hoss's Shu”, in Sarah P. McLean Greene, Vesty of the Basins, New York: Harper Brothers, page 34:
      'Mis' Garrison,' says Fluke, 'I'll drive ye 'round wherever ye wants me to, but I'll be d—d if I'll curchy to ye!' So she fetched along an imported one.