/ˈkʌ.ɹi/, /kɝ.i/, /ˈkʊ.ɹi/
Origin1747 (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.
- countable, uncountableOne of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce.
- countable, uncountableA spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavored with curry powder.
- countable, uncountableCurry powder.
- transitiveTo cook or season with curry powder.
- transitiveTo 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.”
- transitiveTo dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
- transitiveTo 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.”
- figuratively, transitiveTo 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, we”
- transitiveTo 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, obsoleteTo scurry; to ride or run hastily
- obsolete, transitiveTo 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.”
- obsolete, transitiveTo hurry.
“A sermon is soon curryed over.”
- A surname from Irish, anglicized from Irish Ó 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.
- 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.
Formscurries(plural) · currey(alternative, obsolete) · currie(alternative, archaic) · curries(present, singular, third-person) · currying(participle, present) · curried(participle, past) · curried(past) · Corey(alternative) · Corry(alternative)
Source: Wiktionary