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curry

noun
/ˈkʌ.ɹi/UK/kɝ.i/

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.

  1. derived from coquō
  2. derived from cocere
  3. derived from cuyre — “to cook”
  4. derived from cury — “cooking”
  5. borrowed from கறி

Definitions

  1. One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce.

  2. A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavored with curry powder.

  3. Curry powder.

  4. ›+ 17 more definitions

    1. 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.”
      • 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.”
      • People get mixed up by thinking race is #1 because girls aren't going for asians and curries.

    2. To cook or season with curry powder.

    3. To groom (a horse)

      To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.

      • Your short horse is soon curried.
      • 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.

    4. To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.

    5. To beat, thrash

      To beat, thrash; to drub.

      • I have seen him curry a fellow's carcase handsomely.
      • […]By setting brother against brother / To claw and curry one another.

    6. To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.

    7. To perform currying upon.

      • 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 […].
      • Next, we curry the avg function to 3 arguments and put it into an option.

    8. To scurry

      To scurry; to ride or run hastily

    9. To cover (a distance)

      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.
      • All these shots shall curry or finish their ranges in times equal to each other.

    10. To hurry.

      • A sermon is soon curryed over.

    11. Obsolete form of quarry.

    12. A surname from Irish, anglicized from Irish Ó Comhraidhe (“descendant of Comhraidhe”).

      • Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry has accepted the role of assistant general manager for the basketball programs at alma mater Davidson College.

    13. An Irish surname, a variant of Corr.

    14. An Irish surname, a variant of Currie.

    15. A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic, a variant of Currie.

    16. A village and townland in County Sligo, Ireland (Irish grid ref G 4906).

    17. A locale in the United States

      A locale in the United States:

The neighborhood

Derived

curry bread, currycel, curry chip, currycomb, curry house, curry leaf, curryless, currylike, Curry Mile, curry muncher, curry-muncher, curry nigger, curry paste, curry plant, curry powder, curry puff, curry queen, curry roux, curry stuff, curry tree, currywhore, currywurst, cuzza, give curry, give someone curry, jungle curry, retort curry, curry favor, Curry County

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for curry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA