curry

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to treat by incorporating fat

   curry tanned leather

2. 2
   noun

   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.”

3. 3
   verb

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

   Your short horse is soon curried.

4. 4
   verb

   To beat, thrash; to drub.

   I have seen him curry a fellow's carcase handsomely.

5. 5
   verb

   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.

6. 6
   verb

   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 […].

7. 7
   verb

   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.

8. 8
   verb

   To hurry.

   A sermon is soon curryed over.

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.