1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”), from Middle French cuyre (“to cook”) (whence also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.
Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of Richard II of England.
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce.
vegetarian curry
Yokosuka curry
navy curry
beef curry
(countable, uncountable) A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavored with curry powder.
(countable, uncountable) Curry powder.
(countable, derogatory, ethnic, qualifier:incel slang, slur, uncountable) A person of South Asian heritage.
[…] while another tells us that white women “are also THE most racist group of foids. they would rather put a bullet through their brain than date a curry or sandcel.” 2020, Anthony Glyn Burton, "'I would do anything to not call this place home': The black pill, involuntary celibacy, and the neoliberal male grasp in digital incel communities", thesis submitted to Ryerson University & York University, pages 92-93
For example, spicycurry says, “STOP THE COPE NOW. The only ones who should be complaining about race are us curries who are literally at the bottom of the pile.” 2020, Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don’t Understand... It’s Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, pages 29-30
People get mixed up by thinking race is #1 because girls aren't going for asians and curries. 2024, anonymous, quoted in Václav Báča, "Hierarchy at the Bottom of the Hierarchy: Involuntary Celibates, Identity, and Race", thesis submitted to Charles University, page 40
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1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”), from Middle French cuyre (“to cook”) (whence also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.
Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of Richard II of England.
Meanings
(transitive) To cook or season with curry powder.
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currie
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currying
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Translations (2)
eo karei (to cook or season with curry) · fi maustaa currylla (to cook or season with curry)
From Middle English currayen, from Old French correer (“to prepare”), presumably from Vulgar Latin *conredare, from Latin com- (a form of con- (“with; together”)) + a verb derived from Proto-Germanic *raidaz. More at ready.
Meanings
(transitive) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
Your short horse is soon curried. 1610–1614, John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Valentinian”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:
(transitive) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
(transitive) To beat, thrash; to drub.
I have seen him curry a fellow's carcase handsomely. c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii:
[…]By setting brother against brother / To claw and curry one another. 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
(figuratively, transitive) To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
A middle-aged woman waves and calls to her, as if she, like the hungry reporters, were currying the girl's favor: Florence Aadland (Sarandon, in a wily, multilayered performance), Beverly's mother, wears an expression of maternal concern, though her self-serving motives become increasingly clear. 2014 August 27, Stephanie Zacharek, “The Last of Robin Hood Wrestles with a Star's Underage Love”, in The Village Voice, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2014:
de kardätschen (to groom a horse) · it strigliare (to groom a horse) · de nasszurichten (to dress leather) · ga cíor (to groom a horse) · bg щавя (to dress leather) · ca estrijolar (to groom a horse) · cmn 鞭打 (to beat or thrash) · ota قاشاغیلامق (to groom a horse) · nl roskammen (to groom a horse) · hu csutakol (to groom a horse) · de striegeln (to groom a horse) · bg тимаря (to groom a horse) · de dreschen (to beat or thrash) · ga leasaigh (to dress leather) · fi sukia (to groom a horse) · ru би́ть (to beat or thrash) · sq kashais (to groom a horse) · fi muokata (to dress leather)
The easiest way to curry parameters is to create a function that takes a parameter block and returns a function that will call the original function with the presupplied parameters as defaults […]. 2011, Zachary Kessin, Programming HTML5 Applications: Building Powerful Cross-Platform Environments in JavaScript, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 21:
Next, we curry the avg function to 3 arguments and put it into an option. 2015, Leonardo Borges, Clojure Reactive Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 194:
Possibly derived from currier, a common 16th- to 18th-century form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Possibly influenced by scurry.
Meanings
(intransitive, obsolete) To scurry; to ride or run hastily
(obsolete, transitive) To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
I am not hee that can ... by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles. 1608, George Chapman, The Conspiracie, and Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron, section 2.245:
All these shots shall curry or finish their ranges in times equal to each other. 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
(obsolete, transitive) To hurry.
A sermon is soon curryed over. 1676, Andrew Marvell, Mr. Smirke, section 34: