curry
/ˈkʌ.ɹi/ noun, verb, proper noun
Also a form of quarry
Forms curries currying curried currey currie Corey Corry
- noun One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce. “beef curry”
- noun A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavored with curry powder.
- noun Curry powder.
- noun (incel slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of South Asian heritage.
- verb (transitive) To cook or season with curry powder.
- verb (transitive) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
- verb (transitive) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
- verb (transitive) To beat, thrash; to drub.
- verb (transitive, figurative) To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
- verb (transitive, computing) To perform currying upon.
- verb (intransitive, obsolete) To scurry; to ride or run hastily
- verb (transitive, obsolete) To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
- verb (transitive, obsolete) To hurry.
- proper noun A surname from Irish, anglicized from Irish Ó Comhraidhe (“descendant of Comhraidhe”).
- proper noun An Irish surname, a variant of Corr.
- proper noun An Irish surname, a variant of Currie.
- proper noun A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic, a variant of Currie.
- proper noun A village and townland in County Sligo, Ireland (Irish grid ref G 4906).
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Pike County, Alabama.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Talladega County, Alabama.
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Etymology
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.
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.
Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry.
Possibly derived from currier, a common 16th- to 18th-century form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Possibly influenced by scurry.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; --said of leather.
- verb 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.
- noun A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
- noun 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.
Etymology [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.]
Etymology [Tamil kari.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “curry”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details