different between curry vs daubing

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: k?r??, IPA^(key): /?k?.?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?.?i/, /?k?.?i/
• Rhymes: -?ri

Etymology 1

1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English), from Tamil ??? (ka?i), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”), from Middle French cuyre (“to cook”) (from which also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere, present active infinitive of coqu?.

Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of Richard II of England.

Alternative forms

• currey (obsolete)
• currie (archaic)

Noun

curry (countable and uncountable, plural curries)

1. One of a family of dishes originating from South Asian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce.

   Synonym: (rhyming slang) Ruby Murray

2. A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavoured with curry powder.
3. Curry powder.

   Synonym: curry powder

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Chinese: ??
• ? Danish: karri
  • ? Icelandic: karrí
• ? Irish: curaí
• ? Japanese: ???
  • ? Marshallese: kare
• ? Korean: ?? (keori)
• ? Swedish: kurry
• ? Turkish: köri

Translations

See also

• piccalilli

Verb

curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)

1. (transitive) To cook or season with curry powder.

Translations

Etymology 2

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.

Verb

curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)

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

   • Your short horse is soon curried.
2. (transitive) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
3. (transitive) To beat, thrash; to drub.

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

   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras part 1, canto 1

     […] By setting brother against brother / To claw and curry one another.

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

Usage notes

The sense "To win or gain favour" is most frequently used in the phrases "to curry favour (with)" and "to curry [someone's] favour".

Derived terms

• curry favor

Translations

Etymology 3

Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry.

Verb

curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)

1. (transitive, computing) To perform currying upon.
   • 2011, Zachary Kessin, Programming HTML5 Applications: Building Powerful Cross-Platform Environments in JavaScript, "O'Reilly Media, Inc." (?ISBN), page 21:

     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 […] .

   • 2015, Leonardo Borges, Clojure Reactive Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd (?ISBN), page 194:

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

Translations

Etymology 4

Possibly derived from currier, a common 16th- to 18th-century form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Possibly influenced by scurry.

Verb

curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To scurry; to ride or run hastily
2. (transitive, obsolete) To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
   • 1608, George Chapman, The Conspiracie, and Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron 2.245

     I am not hee that can ... by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles.

   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)

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

3. (transitive, obsolete) To hurry.
   • 1676, Andrew Marvell, Mr. Smirke 34

     A sermon is soon curryed over.

Etymology 5

Noun

curry (plural curries)

1. Obsolete form of quarry.

Further reading

• curry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “curry”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English curry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.ri/
• Hyphenation: cur?ry
• Rhymes: -?ri

Noun

curry m (plural curry's, diminutive curry'tje n)

1. the spicy condiment curry powder

   Synonyms: kerrie, kerriepoeder

2. a curry dish

   Synonym: kerrieschotel

3. curry ketchup

   Synonym: curryketchup

Derived terms

Finnish

Alternative forms

• karri

Etymology

Borrowed from English curry, itself from Tamil ??? (ka?i).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?r?i/, [?k?r?i]
• Rhymes: -?r?i
• Syllabification: kar?ri

Noun

curry

1. curry, curry powder (south Asian spice mix)
2. curry (a dish made using this spice mixture)

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle French from multiple sources including English curry, all ultimately derived from Tamil ??? (ka?i).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.?i/

Noun

curry m (plural currys)

1. curry

Synonyms

• cari

Further reading

• “curry” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

curry m (invariable)

1. curry; curry powder

Polish

Etymology

From English curry, from Tamil ??? (ka?i).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.r?/

Noun

curry n (indeclinable)

1. curry (dish)
2. curry powder

Further reading

• curry in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• curry in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

curry m (uncountable)

1. curry powder (mixture of spices used in Asian cooking)
2. curry (dish made with curry powder)

Romanian

Noun

curry m (uncountable)

1. curry powder (mixture of spices)
2. curry (dish)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kuri/, [?ku.ri]

Noun

curry m (plural currys)

1. curry

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

curry c (uncountable)

1. a curry
2. curry powder

Declension

English

Verb

daubing

1. present participle of daub

Noun

daubing (plural daubings)

1. Something daubed, such as graffiti.
2. A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; roughcast.
3. In currying horses, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; dubbing.

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