cur'us

An 'Hamp he gives a bit of a laugh kinder mad,' n 'he ses, ` Yes, she's cur'us -- cur'us as -- --!

Lodusky 1995

"Me and Sol met kinder cur'us," began the captain.

Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Various

I's kinder cur'us like, to know jest what't was all about;

Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various

I's pintedly cur'us fer ter see dem lessons, _I_ is.

Peggy Stewart at School

"That's a kinder cur'us name, now, ain't it?" questioned Mr. Noman.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 Various

Well, the cur'us thing is that I was out in the paster mowin 'some brakes -- here, let me hitch up this side, while you do the other -- and I heard somebody or somethin' comin 'slam-bang, and I looked up -- I wa'n't near enough so as to see who

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 Various

Why, he's got mats from Mogadore on all de entries, and a great big 'un on de parlor; and ye ought to see de shawl he brought Missus, an' all de cur'us kind o 'tings to de Squire.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various

I wasn't skeered, but I had three chills and a stroke of palsy in less than five minits, and my face had a cur'us brownish-yaller-greenbluish color in it, which was perfectly unaccountable.

The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916

He's a cur'us chap, a little teched I guess; but as pleasant a spoken and amoosin 'a feller as another feller could want to have with him on the road!

Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest Hulbert Footner 1911

But 'twas a leetle cur'us, though, for p'r'aps his voice would balk,

Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907