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curry
1[ kur-ee, kuhr-ee ]
noun
- East Indian Cooking. a pungent dish of vegetables, onions, meat or fish, etc., flavored with various spices or curry powder, and often eaten with rice.
- any dish flavored with curry powder or the like:
a lamb curry.
verb (used with object)
- to cook or flavor (food) with curry powder or a similar combination of spices:
to curry eggs.
curry
2[ kur-ee, kuhr-ee ]
Curry
3[ kur-ee, kuhr-ee ]
noun
- John (Anthony), 1949–94, British figure skater.
- John Steu·art [stoo, -ert, styoo, -], 1897–1946, U.S. painter.
Curry
1/ ˈʌɪ /
noun
- CurryJohn (Anthony)19491994MBritishSPORT AND GAMES: ice skater John ( Anthony ). 1949–94, British ice skater: won the figure-skating gold medal in the 1976 Olympic Games
curry
2/ ˈʌɪ /
noun
- a spicy dish of oriental, esp Indian, origin that is made in many ways but usually consists of meat or fish prepared in a hot piquant sauce
- curry seasoning or sauce
- give someone curry slang.to assault (a person) verbally or physically
verb
- tr to prepare (food) with curry powder or sauce
curry
3/ ˈʌɪ /
verb
- to beat vigorously, as in order to clean
- to dress and finish (leather) after it has been tanned to make it strong, flexible, and waterproof
- to groom (a horse)
- curry favourto ingratiate oneself, esp with superiors
Word History and Origins
Origin of curry1
Word History and Origins
Origin of curry1
Origin of curry2
Idioms and Phrases
- curry favor, to seek to advance oneself through flattery or fawning:
His fellow workers despised him for currying favor with the boss.
- give (someone) a bit of curry, Australian. to rebuke, discipline, or criticize; harass.
Example Sentences
Ten years ago he had his worst allergic reaction after ordering a curry at a local Indian takeaway.
It’s a fitting name, given its ever-changing array of punchy plates from Penang curry with salted beef and candlenut to grilled salted beef served with “daddy’s special sauce.”
Entwined on these YouTube channels are narratives of the opposition Democratic Party being obsequious to Beijing and trying to curry favour with Pyongyang.
But rather than curry favour, he launched an investigation into one of its ministers.
"She's telling everybody that Brad Burton is in jail, but I was actually out in Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset having a curry with him," he says.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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