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curry

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cur⋅ry

1  [kur-ee, kuhr-ee] noun, plural -ries, verb, -ried, -ry⋅ing.
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–noun
1. 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.
2. any dish flavored with curry powder or the like: a lamb curry.
3. curry powder.
–verb (used with object)
4. to cook or flavor (food) with curry powder or a similar combination of spices: to curry eggs.
—Idiom
5. give (someone) a bit of curry, Australian. to rebuke, discipline, or criticize; harass.
Also, currie.

Origin:
1590–1600; < Tamil kaṟi sauce
Indian Curry-Ground Fresh
Basic & Yellow Varieties Available. Ground Fresh to Each Order.
www.WholeSpice.com
Buy Mild Curry Powder
Discount Prices & Quality Spices Hurry Buy 2 Get 3 Free! Ships Fast
www.Puritan.com/Spices

cur⋅ry

2  [kur-ee, kuhr-ee]
–verb (used with object), -ried, -ry⋅ing.
1. to rub and clean (a horse) with a currycomb.
2. to dress (tanned hides) by soaking, scraping, beating, coloring, etc.
3. to beat; thrash.
—Idiom
4. 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; ME cor(r)ayen, cor(r)eyen < AF curreier, c. OF correer, earlier conreer to make ready < VL *conrēdāre; see corody

Cur⋅ry

  [kur-ee, kuhr-ee]
–noun
1. John (Anthony), 1949–94, British figure skater.
2. John Steu⋅art  [stoo-ert, styoo-] , 1897–1946, U.S. painter.
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cur·ry 1   (kûr'ē, kŭr'ē)   
tr.v.   cur·ried, cur·ry·ing, cur·ries

  1. To groom (a horse) with a currycomb.

  2. To prepare (tanned hides) for use, as by soaking or coloring.


[Middle English curreien, from Anglo-Norman curreier, to arrange, curry, from Vulgar Latin *conrēdāre : Latin com-, com- + Vulgar Latin *-rēdāre, to make ready (of Germanic origin; see reidh- in Indo-European roots). Curry favor, by folk etymology from Middle English currayen favel, from Old French correier fauvel, to curry a fallow-colored horse, be hypocritical (from the fallow horse as a medieval symbol of deceit).]
cur·ry 2 also cur·rie   (kûr'ē, kŭr'ē)   
n.   pl. cur·ries

  1. Curry powder.

  2. A heavily spiced sauce or relish made with curry powder and eaten with rice, meat, fish, or other food.

  3. A dish seasoned with curry powder.

tr.v.   cur·ried, cur·ry·ing, cur·ries
To season (food) with curry.

[Tamil kaṟi.]
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Word Origin & History

curry  (v.)
c.1290, "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 O.Fr. correier fauvel "to be false, hypocritical," lit. "to curry the chestnut ('fawn-colored') horse," which in medieval Fr. allegories was a symbol of cunning and deceit.

curry  (n.)
"spice," 1681, from Tamil kari "sauce, relish for rice."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Curry Powder
Use to flavor meat and seafood also fruit. Sold in 1 and 5 Lb. Jars
www.ScandinavianSpice.com
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