[kur-ee, kuhr-ee] 
noun, plural -ries, verb, -ried, -ry⋅ing.| 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. |
| 4. | to cook or flavor (food) with curry powder or a similar combination of spices: to curry eggs. |
| 5. | give (someone) a bit of curry, Australian. to rebuke, discipline, or criticize; harass. |
[kur-ee, kuhr-ee] | 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. |
| 4. | curry favor, to seek to advance oneself through flattery or fawning: His fellow workers despised him for currying favor with the boss. |
[kur-ee, kuhr-ee] | 1. | John (Anthony), 1949–94, British figure skater. |
| 2. | John Steu⋅art [stoo-ert, styoo-] , 1897–1946, U.S. painter. |
| cur·ry 1 (kûr'ē, kŭr'ē) tr.v. cur·ried, cur·ry·ing, cur·ries
[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
To season (food) with curry. [Tamil kaṟi.] |