curry

• (UK) enPR: kŭrʹē, IPA^(key): /ˈkʌ.ɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌ.ɹi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kɜ.ɹi/
• Rhymes: -ʌri

1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English[1][2]), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”),[2] from French cuire (“to cook”) (from which also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere, present active infinitive of coquō.

Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of Richard II of England.

curry (countable and uncountable, plural curries)

1. One of a family of dishes originating from South Asian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce.
2. A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavoured with curry powder.
3. Curry powder

• (dish): Ruby Murray (rhyming slang)
• (curry powder): curry powder

• piccalilli

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

1. (transitive) To cook or season with curry powder.

From Middle English currayen, from Old French correer (“to prepare”), presumably from Vulgar Latin *conredare, from Latin com- (a form of con- (“with; together”)) + a verb derived from Proto-Germanic *raidaz. More at ready.

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

1. (transitive) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Beaumont and Fletcher

     Your short horse is soon curried.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 11, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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.

2. (transitive) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
3. (transitive) To beat, thrash; to drub.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Beaumont and Fletcher

     I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely.

   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1

     […] By setting brother against brother / To claw and curry one another.

4. (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 favor

Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry.

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

1. (transitive, computing) To perform currying upon.

Possibly derived from currier, a common 16–18th century form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Possibly influenced by scurry.

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

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To scurry; to ride or run hastily.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
   • 1608, George Chapman, The Conspiracie, and Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron 2.245

     I am not hee that can ... by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles.

   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)

     All these shots shall curry or finish their ranges in times equal to each other.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To hurry.
   • 1676, Andrew Marvell, Mr. Smirke 34

     A sermon is soon curryed over.

• “curry” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

From English curry.

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curry m (plural curry's, diminutive curry'tje n)

1. The spicy condiment curry powder
2. A curry dish
3. curry ketchup

• (powder): kerrie, kerriepoeder
• (dish): kerrieschotel
• (ketchup): curryketchup

• curryketchup
• currypoeder
• curryschotel
• curryworst

curry

1. south Asian spice mix, curry powder, curry paste
2. a dish made using this spice mixture, curry (dish)

• karri

English curry

• IPA^(key): /ky.ʁi/

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curry m (plural currys)

1. A curry

• “curry” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

curry m (invariable)

1. curry; curry powder

curry m (uncountable)

1. curry powder (mixture of spices used in Asian cooking)
2. curry (dish made with curry powder)

curry m (uncountable)

1. curry powder (mixture of spices)
2. curry (dish)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkari/

curry m (plural currys)

1. curry

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curry c (uncountable)

1. A curry
2. curry powder