curry

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[ kur-ee, kuhr-ee ]
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noun,plural cur·ries.
  1. East Indian Cooking. 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.

verb (used with object),cur·ried, cur·ry·ing.
  1. to cook or flavor (food) with curry powder or a similar combination of spices: to curry eggs.

Idioms about curry

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

Origin of curry

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First recorded in 1590–1600, from Tamil kaṟi “sauce, relish”
  • Sometimes cur·rie .

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Other definitions for curry (2 of 3)

curry2
[ kur-ee, kuhr-ee ]

verb (used with object),cur·ried, cur·ry·ing.
  1. to rub and clean (a horse) with a currycomb.

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

  1. to beat; thrash.

Origin of curry

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First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English curreien, curraien, curry, from Anglo-French curreier, Old French corroier, earlier conreer “to make ready,” from Vulgar Latin conrēdāre (unrecorded); see origin at corody

Other definitions for Curry (3 of 3)

Curry
[ kur-ee, kuhr-ee ]

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

  2. John Steu·art [stoo-ert, styoo-], /ˈstu ərt, ˈstyu-/, 1897–1946, U.S. painter.

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British Dictionary definitions for curry (1 of 3)

curry1

/ (ˈkʌrɪ) /


nounplural -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

  1. give someone curry Australian slang to assault (a person) verbally or physically

verb-ries, -rying or -ried
  1. (tr) to prepare (food) with curry powder or sauce

Origin of curry

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C16: from Tamil kari sauce, relish

British Dictionary definitions for curry (2 of 3)

curry2

/ (ˈkʌrɪ) /


verb-ries, -rying or -ried (tr)
  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

  1. to groom (a horse)

  2. curry favour to ingratiate oneself, esp with superiors

Origin of curry

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

British Dictionary definitions for Curry (3 of 3)

Curry

/ (ˈkʌrɪ) /


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

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