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noun

Curry n. (Written also currie)

1.

(Cookery) 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.

verb

Curry v. t. (past & past part. curried; pres. part. currying)

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."

3.

To beat or bruise; to drub; said of persons. "I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely."

To curry favor, to seek to gain favor by flattery or attentions. See Favor, n.

Curry v. t. To flavor or cook with curry.

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Etymology of 'Curry'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Curry" Quotes from Famous Books

... features were not wanting in amiability, but that amiability was a quality into which there entered too much of the sugary element, so that his every gesture, his every attitude, seemed to connote an excess of eagerness to curry favour and cultivate a closer acquaintance. On first speaking to the man, his ingratiating smile, his flaxen hair, and his blue eyes would lead one to say, "What a pleasant, good-tempered fellow he seems!" yet during the next moment or two one would feel inclined ...

— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... Mosambique by the Ajawa at the very time when his Excellency was entertaining English officers with anti-slavery palavers. To any one who understands how minute the information is, which Portuguese governors possess by means of their own slaves, and through gossiping traders who seek to curry their favour, it is idle to assert that all this slaving goes on without their approval ...

— A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries • David Livingstone

... big, broad- shouldered men around camp-fires. If you believe what they say, you would think that every officer had either bungled or had funked the fight. And when a man really has performed some act which cannot be denied they call him a "swipe," and say he did it to gain promotion, or to curry favor with the General. Of course, it may be different in armies officered by gentlemen; but men are pretty much alike all the world over, and I know that those in our Legion were as given to gossip and slander as the inmates of any ...

— Captain Macklin • Richard Harding Davis

... his dialogue. In an audience thus susceptible to innuendo Lyly saw his opportunity. He was a courtier writing for the Court, he was also, let us add, anxious to obtain a certain coveted post at the Revels' Office. He was an artist not entirely without ideals, yet ever ready to curry favour and to aim at material advantages by his literary facility. The idea therefore of writing dramas which should be, from beginning to end, nothing but an ingenious compliment to his royal mistress ...

— John Lyly • John Dover Wilson

... the Hoopa Reservation," said Mr. Elastings, "and canoed down the Trinity and Klamath Rivers to the ocean. And just now we've come out from two weeks in the real wilds of Curry County." ...

— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London

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