curry
(noun) (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice
dress, groom, curry
(verb) give a neat appearance to; “groom the dogs”; “dress the horses”
curry
(verb) treat by incorporating fat; “curry tanned leather”
curry
(verb) season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking
Source: WordNet® 3.1
curry (countable and uncountable, plural curries)
One of a family of dishes originating from South Asian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce.
Synonym: Ruby Murray (rhyming slang)
A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavoured with curry powder.
Curry powder.
Synonym: curry powder
curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)
(transitive) To cook or season with curry powder.
curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)
(transitive) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
(transitive) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
(transitive) To beat, thrash; to drub.
(transitive) To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
The sense "To win or gain favour" is most frequently used in the phrases "to curry favour (with)" and "to curry [someone's] favour".
curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)
(transitive, computing) To perform currying upon.
curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)
(intransitive, obsolete) To scurry; to ride or run hastily
(transitive, obsolete) To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
(transitive, obsolete) To hurry.
curry (plural curries)
Obsolete form of quarry.
Curry
An Irish surname, anglicized from Irish Ă“ Comhraidhe.
An Irish surname, a variant of Corr.
An Irish surname, a variant of Currie.
A Scottish surname, a variant of Currie.
A locale in United States.
An unincorporated community in Pike County, Alabama.
An unincorporated community in Talladega County, Alabama.
An unincorporated community in Walker County, Alabama.
A ghost town in Alaska.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Curry is the 436th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 74,919 individuals. Curry is most common among White (59.18%) and Black (34.93%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Cur"ry (kr"r), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Curried (-rd); p.pr. & vb. n. Currying.] Etym: [OE. curraien, curreien, OF. cunreer, correier, to prepare, arrange, furnish, curry (a horse), F. corroyer to curry (leather) (cf. OF. conrei, conroi, order, arrangement, LL. conredium); cor- (L.com-) + roi, rei, arrangement, order; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. ready. See Ready, Greith, and cf. Corody, Array.]
1. To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
2. To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean. Your short horse is soon curried. Beau. & FL.
3. To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons. I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely. Beau. & FL. To curry favor, to seek to gain favor by flattery or attentions. See Favor, n.
Cur"ry, n. Etym: [Tamil kari.] [Written also currie.]
1. (Cookery)
Definition: A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
2. A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry. Curry powder (Cookery), a condiment used for making curry, formed of various materials, including strong spices, as pepper, ginger, garlic, coriander seed, etc.
Cur"ry (kr"r), v. t.
Definition: To flavor or cook with curry.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
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