CURRY

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

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Etymology 1

Noun

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

Verb

curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)

(transitive) To cook or season with curry powder.

Etymology 2

Verb

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.

Usage notes

The sense "To win or gain favour" is most frequently used in the phrases "to curry favour (with)" and "to curry [someone's] favour".

Etymology 3

Verb

curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)

(transitive, computing) To perform currying upon.

Etymology 4

Verb

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.

Etymology 5

Noun

curry (plural curries)

Obsolete form of quarry.

Proper noun

Curry

An Irish surname, anglicized from Irish Ó 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.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Curry is the 436^th 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

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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

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