- a variation of curry.
currie
Americannoun
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‘Extremely sorry,’ stammered Watkins, assisting himself to currie and parsley and butter, in the extremity of his confusion.
From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Dickens, Charles
Edward, produce your best wines—the pilau and currie, and all that, leave to me.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 05 by Edgeworth, Maria
She then bails out the rice, places it upon the leaf, and afterwards pours the currie over it.
From Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. by Scudder, Dr. John
There he saw his seven daughters carefully washing the rice and preparing the currie, and as each dish was completed, they put it by the fire ready to be cooked.
From Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India by Frere, M.
Mix smooth in a basin one table-spoonful of currie powder, one of flour, and a tea-spoonful of salt, with a little cold water.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849
Additional favorites include a homemade rotisserie chicken Caesar salad, an avocado and cilantro-forward salad and a curried chicken salad, complete with a mayo-based curry chutney dressing and whole cashews.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
"For the next week we just had tuna every day, it was a bit like Forrest Gump and the shrimp, we had curried tuna, fried tuna, battered tuna, beer-battered tuna, raw tuna."
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
To push their deal through, the shot-calling Ellisons, Larry and David, have indeed curried favor with Mr. Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Once identified among the intelligentsia as a “reformicon” hoping to shift a neoconservative GOP toward a pro-working-class direction, Salam had long curried liberal affection as “literary Brooklyn’s favorite conservative.”
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2024
He had curried the horses till they shone.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Gianni Infantino has spent years currying favor with President Trump to ensure the smooth running of the tournament.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
And I’d say that currying the favor of 84% is still pretty darn good.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
He first fought with the invading Japanese to oust Britain, before swapping sides as the tide of war changed and currying favour with London for the cause of independence.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
The perfect venue, the CEO of the Chinese hacking company thought, to hold a Lunar New Year banquet currying favor with government officials.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
It outraged him that the people who got credit for higher understanding were those who spent the most time currying favor with the media.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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