curry
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Definition of curry
24 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce.
- (countable, uncountable)A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavored with curry powder.
- (countable, uncountable)Curry powder.
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(countable, derogatory, ethnic, slur, uncountable)A person of South Asian heritage.
“[…] while another tells us that white women “are also THE most racist group of foids. they would rather put a bullet through their brain than date a curry or sandcel.””
“For example, spicycurry says, “STOP THE COPE NOW. The only ones who should be complaining about race are us curries who are literally at the bottom of the pile.””
“People get mixed up by thinking race is #1 because girls aren't going for asians and curries.”
- (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of quarry.
verb
- (transitive)To cook or season with curry powder.
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(transitive)To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
“Your short horse is soon curried.”
“One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.”
- (transitive)To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
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(transitive)To beat, thrash; to drub.
“I have seen him curry a fellow's carcase handsomely.”
“[…]By setting brother against brother / To claw and curry one another.”
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(figuratively, transitive)To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
“A middle-aged woman waves and calls to her, as if she, like the hungry reporters, were currying the girl's favor: Florence Aadland (Sarandon, in a wily, multilayered performance), Beverly's mother, wears an expression of maternal concern, though her self-serving motives become increasingly clear.”
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(transitive)To perform currying upon.
“The easiest way to curry parameters is to create a function that takes a parameter block and returns a function that will call the original function with the presupplied parameters as defaults […].”
“Next, we curry the avg function to 3 arguments and put it into an option.”
- (intransitive, obsolete)To scurry; to ride or run hastily
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(obsolete, transitive)To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
“I am not hee that can ... by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles.”
“All these shots shall curry or finish their ranges in times equal to each other.”
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(obsolete, transitive)To hurry.
“A sermon is soon curryed over.”
name
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A surname from Irish, anglicized from Irish Ó Comhraidhe (“descendant of Comhraidhe”).
“Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry has accepted the role of assistant general manager for the basketball programs at alma mater Davidson College.”
- An Irish surname, a variant of Corr.
- An Irish surname, a variant of Currie.
- A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic, a variant of Currie.
- A village and townland in County Sligo, Ireland (Irish grid ref G 4906).
- A locale in the United States:
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Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”), from Middle French cuyre (“to cook”) (whence also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere. Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of Richard II of England.
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