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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

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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Curry

Cur"ry\ (k?r"r?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Curried (-r?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Currying.] [OE. curraien, curreien, OF. cunreer, correier, to prepare, arrange, furnish, curry (a horse), F. corroyer to curry (leather) (cf. OF. conrei, conroi, order, arrangement, LL. conredium); cor- (L. com-) + roi, rei, arrangement, order; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. ready. See Ready, Greith, and cf. Corody, Array.]

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. --Beau. & FL.

3. To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.

I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely. --Beau. & FL.

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

Curry

Cur"ry\, n. [Tamil kari.] [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.

Curry

Cur"ry\ (k?r"r?), v. t. To flavor or cook with curry.
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Language Translation for : curry
Spanish: curry,
German: das Currygericht,
Japanese: カレー料理
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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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