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curry

[kur-ee, kuhr-ee]

noun

East Indian Cookery. 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.

curry powder.

verb (used with object)

to cook or flavor (food) with curry powder or a similar combination of spices: to curry eggs.

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to steal or take dishonestly (money, esp. public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle.

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Idiom

give (someone) a bit of curry, Australian. to rebuke, discipline, or criticize; harass.

Also, currie.

Origin:
1590–1600; < Tamil kaṟi sauce

Example Sentences

Add the artichokes, curry powder, salt and pepper and stir.

But the only person's favor you can curry is that of your imagined successor.

They may wish to curry favour with domestic lobbies or merely to look as if they are doing something.

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Add the artichokes, curry powder, salt and pepper and stir.

But the only person's favor you can curry is that of your imagined successor.

They may wish to curry favour with domestic lobbies or merely to look as if they are doing something.

Mix in the curry powder and stir to coat the vegetables.

But having an extra curry dish here and there couldn't hurt.

Curry leaves make this vegan curry intensely aromatic.

Add the garlic, saute another few seconds, then stir in the curry powder.

Curry powder reared its head, in deep-fried croquettes.

Mix coconut milk with a thick red curry paste, stir and boil and stir for an hour, as it reduces and richens.

Their subjects made donations to the temples to curry favor-both with the gods and with the local ruler.

Chicken breast gets an easy upgrade with shredded coconut and curry powder.

Melt two tablespoons of the butter in a saucepan and add the flour and curry powder, stirring with a wire whisk.

Chili tastings and cooking demos advise on capsaicin levels and how to make a perfect cauliflower curry.

The menu offers everything from curry to mashed potatoes, and they also cook good breakfasts.

They use a lot of coconut milk, curry leaves, and mustard seeds.

Transfer chicken to baking sheet and season well with a large pinch each of salt, pepper and curry powder.

But they are less likely to be costermongers than curry chefs.

I've also got a small kit of spices that includes everything from cinnamon to curry powder.

Cook briefly, stirring, and add curry powder or paste.

Even government officials may want to curry sympathy.

Stir until butter is melted and blended with curry powder and flour.

Smaller ones might gang up, or curry favour with bigger powers to pursue their claims.

Stir in the curry powder and cook and stir for another minute or so.

Japanese chicken katsu curry has appeared on the canteen menu.

Grilled lamb burgers with carrot slaw and mesclun, topped with fresh mango chutney and curry powder.

He pulled my story out of me over a few beers and a curry one evening, and he admonished me for putting up with the abuse.

Even more shocked at the racist curry restaurant next door.

The spices that go into curry are many and varied, but curry.

If you could curry favor with the critics by painting their.

And my willingness to really engage with them intellectually--which one cannot do if one is intimidated or trying to curry favor.

Others curry favour by handing contracts to companies run by former policemen.

Far too much of the stimulus went to pet projects of politicians anxious to curry favor from lobbyists and contributors.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object), -ried, -ry·ing.

to rub and clean (a horse) with a currycomb.

to dress (tanned hides) by soaking, scraping, beating, coloring, etc.

to beat; thrash.

Idiom

curry favor, to seek to advance oneself through flattery or fawning: His fellow workers despised him for currying favor with the boss.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English cor(r)ayen, cor(r)eyen < Anglo-French curreier, cognate with Old French correer, earlier conreer to make ready < Vulgar Latin *conrēdāre; see corody

noun

John (Anthony), 1949–94, British figure skater.

John Steu·art

[stoo-ert, styoo-] , 1897–1946, U.S. painter.

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World English Dictionary

curry¹ (ˈkʌrɪ)

—n , pl -ries
1.	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
2.	curry seasoning or sauce
3.	slang (Austral) give someone curry to assault (a person) verbally or physically

—vb , -ries, -ries, -rying, -ried
4.	(tr) to prepare (food) with curry powder or sauce

[C16: from Tamil kari sauce, relish]

curry² (ˈkʌrɪ)

—vb , -ries, -rying, -ried
1.	to beat vigorously, as in order to clean
2.	to dress and finish (leather) after it has been tanned to make it strong, flexible, and waterproof
3.	to groom (a horse)
4.	curry favour to ingratiate oneself, esp with superiors

[C13: from Old French correer to make ready, from Vulgar Latin conrēdāre (unattested), from rēdāre (unattested) to provide, of Germanic origin]

Curry (ˈkʌrɪ)

—n
	John (Anthony). 1949--94, British ice skater: won the figure-skating gold medal in the 1976 Olympic Games

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Word Origin & History

curry

late 13c., "to rub down a horse," from Anglo-Fr. curreier "to curry-comb a horse," from O.Fr. correier "put in order, prepare, curry," from con- intens. prefix + reier "arrange," from a Gmc. source. The surviving sense of curry favor is c.1510, altered by folk etymology from curry favel (c.1400) from

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O.Fr. correier fauvel "to be false, hypocritical," lit. "to curry the chestnut ('fawn-colored') horse," which in medieval French allegories was a symbol of cunning and deceit.

curry

"spice," 1681, from Tamil kari "sauce, relish for rice."

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