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curry
1[ kur-ee, kuhr-ee ]
noun
- 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.
- any dish flavored with curry powder or the like:
a lamb curry.
verb (used with object)
- to cook or flavor (food) with curry powder or a similar combination of spices:
to curry eggs.
curry
2[ kur-ee, kuhr-ee ]
Curry
3[ kur-ee, kuhr-ee ]
noun
- John (Anthony), 1949–94, British figure skater.
- John Steu·art [stoo, -ert, styoo, -], 1897–1946, U.S. painter.
Curry
1/ ˈʌɪ /
noun
- CurryJohn (Anthony)19491994MBritishSPORT AND GAMES: ice skater John ( Anthony ). 1949–94, British ice skater: won the figure-skating gold medal in the 1976 Olympic Games
curry
2/ ˈʌɪ /
noun
- 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
- curry seasoning or sauce
- give someone curry slang.to assault (a person) verbally or physically
verb
- tr to prepare (food) with curry powder or sauce
curry
3/ ˈʌɪ /
verb
- to beat vigorously, as in order to clean
- to dress and finish (leather) after it has been tanned to make it strong, flexible, and waterproof
- to groom (a horse)
- curry favourto ingratiate oneself, esp with superiors
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of curry1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of curry1
Origin of curry2
Idioms and Phrases
- curry favor, to seek to advance oneself through flattery or fawning:
His fellow workers despised him for currying favor with the boss.
- give (someone) a bit of curry, Australian. to rebuke, discipline, or criticize; harass.
Example Sentences
Entwined on these YouTube channels are narratives of the opposition Democratic Party being obsequious to Beijing and trying to curry favour with Pyongyang.
But rather than curry favour, he launched an investigation into one of its ministers.
"She's telling everybody that Brad Burton is in jail, but I was actually out in Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset having a curry with him," he says.
Though Schleifer’s family might be wealthy, the source said, the firing seemed politically motivated and meant to scare prosecutors who might pursue defendants who curry favor with Trump.
In contrast, she was wary of Kennedy — too smooth, too willing to alter his backstory to curry favor.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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