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▪ I. † ˈcurry, n.1 Obs. rare.
In 5 curray.
[a. F. corroi 13th c. (AngloFr. *corrai), OF. also conroi, conrei, etc., with the primary sense ‘preparation’: see conrey, and curry v.1]
The currying or dressing of leather.
c1430Lydg. Bochas ii. xiii. (1554) 52 a, A skin wrought by good curray.
▪ II. curry, n.2|ˈkʌrɪ|
Forms: (6 carriel, 7 carree), 8 carrye, curree, kerry, 8– currie, curry.
[a. Tamil kari sauce, relish for rice, Canarese karil, whence Pg. caril, and earlier Eng. and Fr. forms; mod.F. is cari.]
1. a. A preparation of meat, fish, fruit, or vegetables, cooked with a quantity of bruised spices and turmeric, and used as a relish or flavouring, esp. for dishes composed of or served with rice. Hence, a curry = a dish or stew (of rice, meat, etc.) flavoured with this preparation (or with curry-powder).
1598W. Phillips Linschoten 88 (Y.) Most of their fish is eaten with rice, which they seeth in broth, which they put upon the rice, and is somewhat soure..but it tasteth well, and is called Carriel. 1681R. Knox Hist. Ceylon 12 They..boyl them [fruits] to make Carrees, to use the Portuguez word, that is somewhat to eat with and relish their Rice. 1747Art of Cookery 52 To make a Currey the Indian way. 1766Grose Voy. E. Indies (1772) I. 150 (Y.) The currees are infinitely various, being a sort of fricacees to eat with rice, made of any animals or vegetables. 1848Thackeray Lett., If you can come to dinner, there's a curry. 1891Sharman Fam. Cookery 16 Pour the curry on the dish with the rice.
b. attrib. and Comb., as curry-sauce, curry-stuff; curry-leaf tree, a name for Bergera Königii, the aromatic leaves of which are used to flavour curries; curry-paste, -powder, preparations of turmeric and strong spices, for making curried dishes.
1855E. Acton Mod. Cookery (rev. ed.) i. 45 A large tablespoonful of Captain White's currie-paste. 1906Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xvi. 450 Add the stock, curry-paste, sliced apple.
1810R. J. Thornton Family Herbal 12 Turmeric..a principal ingredient in the composition of curry-powder. 1883I. L. Bishop in Leisure Ho. 146/1 Curry is at each meal, but it is not made with curry powder.
1845E. Acton Mod. Cookery viii. 201 Currie sauce, highly onioned, is frequently served. 1948Good Housek. Cookery Bk. 280 Curry sauce..is much improved by the addition of 1 tbsp. cream immediately before use.
1860Tennent Ceylon I. 463 (Y.) Plots of esculents and curry-stuffs of every variety, onions, chillies, yams [etc.].
2. to give (a person) curry: see quot. 1941. Austral. slang.
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 21 To give someone curry, to abuse, reprove, express anger at a person. 1944Coast to Coast 1943 113 I'd like him not to be writing! Wouldn't I give him curry! Ibid. 124 I'm going to give those old tarts a bit of curry to-night, Ron. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. vi. 120 A man who attacks another is said..to give him curry or curried hell.
▸ curry house n. chiefly Brit. colloq. a restaurant which serves curry; an Indian restaurant.
1883J. Fiske Let. 9 Mar. (1940) 494 Last evening I dressed in ulster, fur cap and arctics and went out to dine at Halford's Anglo-Indian *Curry-House. 1976Times 7 Aug. 11/2 An old ‘silver lounge’ squashed between curry house and camera shop in an east Kent suburban High Street. 2000M. Gayle Turning Thirty xxviii. 120 We had this absolutely mad night out—curry houses, late-night members-only drinking clubs, hotel bars, the lot.
▪ III. † ˈcurry, currie, n.3 Obs. or arch.
Also 6 curee, curie.
[a. F. curée, in 14–15th c. cuirée, f. cuir hide, corresponding to a L. type *coriāta lit. hide-ful, skin-ful, the entrails of the deer being given to the hounds on the skin: see Littré, and Notes to Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 474. Cf. quarry.]
The portions of an animal slain in the chase that were given to the hounds; the cutting up and disembowelling of the game; transf. any prey thrown to the hounds to be torn in pieces, or seized and torn in pieces by wild beasts: see quarry.
c1500Melusine xix. 99 Þe herte..was hadde out of the watre and the curee made & gyue to the houndes as custome is to doo. 1600Gowrie's Consp. in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 192 His maiestie not staying vppon the curie of the deir, as his vse is. c1611Chapman Iliad xvi. 145 A den of wolves..New come from currie of a stag. Ibid. xvi. 693 Two fierce kings of beasts, oppos'd in strife about a hind Slain on the forehead of a hill, both sharp and hungry set, And to the currie never came but like two deaths they met. 1830R. Chambers Life Jas. I, I. ix. 247 It was James's practice to superintend the curry or dissection of the deer. [1859Helps Friends in C. Ser. ii. II. vi. 134 A bill is thrown before the house as the curée to the hounds; and it is torn to pieces by everybody.]
▪ IV. † ˈcurry, n.4
App. an error for carry n. 1.
a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts i. (1684) 11 Whereof one would lade a Curry or small Cart.
▪ V. curry, a. orig. and chiefly Caribbean.
Brit. |ˈkʌri|, U.S. |ˈkəri|, Caribbean |ˈkʌri|, |ˈkɒri|
[Shortened ‹curried adj.2; compare curry n.2]
attrib. Curried, esp. in a Caribbean style. Esp. in curry goat.
1938Z. N. Hurston Tell my Horse i. ii. 25 It is to be remembered that curry goat is a strong feed, so they could not have femalish music around there. 1945Daily Gleaner (Jamaica) 14 Dec. 11/1 The menu includes: Curry goat and rice. 1994New Paper (Singapore) 1 Oct. 14/4 I'll prepare his favourite curry chicken and nasi lemak when he comes home. 2001Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch (Nexis) 4 Oct. d37 The menu includes jerk chicken, a typical Caribbean dish, but there's also curry beef, goat and shrimp.
▪ VI. curry, v.1|ˈkʌrɪ|
Forms: 3 (?) courey, 4–7 cory, corry, 5–6 cury, 5 corroye, coraye, corey, (core), curray, (pa. tense pl. curreiden), couray, 6 courye, -ie, currey, 6–7 courrie, -y, currie, 4– curry.
[a. OF. correie-r, coree-r, orig. conreder, conreer, cunreer, conraer, conraier to put in order, prepare, arrange, dispose, equip, apparel, curry a horse; in Palsgr. and Cotgr. courroyer, mod.F. corroyer to curry leather, = Pr. conrear to arrange, to entertain, It. corredare to equip, furnish, deck out, fit out (a bride or a ship):—early Rom. *conrēdāre to prepare, make ready, etc.: see conrey.
In OF. the diphthong ei, oi, in the second syllable, belongs originally only to the stressed forms, whence it has been extended to all. The 16th c. form courroyer seems to have been assimilated to courroye, courroie:—L. corrigia thong, leather strap.]
1. trans. To rub down or dress (a horse, ass, etc.) with a comb.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 61/251 And selde heo [an ass] is i-coureyd [? i-conreyd] wel. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xli. (1495) 802 The colte is not..coryed wyth an horse combe. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (1840) 53 (Mätzner) Lik as he wold coraye his maystres hors. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 19 A short horse is soone corryd. 1576Turberv. Venerie 31 It may suffize to rubbe and courrie the hounde three times in a weeke. 1589Pappe w. Hatchet 3 Who would currie an Asse with an Iuorie combe? 1617Markham Caval. iii. 21 First let your groom vncloath him, then currie, rubbe, picke, and dresse him. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Travelling Horse, Ever where the Horse's hair is thinnest there curry the gentlest. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 175 Her hide is daily curried and brushed.
b. Applied to persons.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. (Arb.) 273 Thou art that fine, foolish..Alexander that tendest to nothing but to combe and cury thy haire. 1596Nashe Saffron Walden 107 Currying and smudging and pranking himselfe. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. xii. §3 (1734) 243 The Parts affected..being first well curried with a Flesh-Brush. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life xx. (1826) 251 She curries with towels The Chamber-maid's bowels.
c. fig.: To tickle, scrape, scratch, claw, etc.
1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 59 We shall be curried with the brislie phrases And prick-song termes he hath premeditate. 1607Dekker Westw. Hoe v. Wks. 1873 II. 352 You shall go on fidling..curry your instruments: play and away. 1655Fuller Hist. Camb. (1840) 151 Indeed, with his learned lectures, he..curried the lazy hides, of many an idle and ignorant friar.
2. To dress (tanned leather) by soaking, scraping, paring, beating, colouring, etc.
14..Chalmerlan Air c. 22 (Jam.) Item, thai wirk it [lethir] or it be courait. c1440Promp. Parv. 110 Currayyn ledyr..corradio. 1490Caxton Eneydos vii. 30 The hide of an oxe whiche [she] dyd doo corroye well. 1503–4Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 19 Preamb., Upon peyne of forfeitur of every hyde by hym so corryed. 1601Holland Pliny II. 171 Those skins which are to be courried and dressed. 1639Sc. Acts, Chas. I (1870) V. App. 610/1 Edward Spencer Corier, craving libertie to buy hydis..and vent the same being Coried. 1714Fr. Bk. of Rates 142 All Leather, tanned or curried, coming from Foreign Parts. 1826Scott Woodst. xxxi, I made the deer's hide be curried and dressed by a tanner.
†b. To work iron in the forge. Obs. [F. corroyer du fer.]
1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 58 Spanish-steel..sometimes proves very unsound, as not being well curried, that is well wrought.
3. transf. To beat or thrash one's hide for him, give a drubbing to. Also fig.
1526Skelton Magnyf. 1641 For myrth I have hym coryed, beten and blyst. 1530Palsgr. 504/2 She hath curryed hym with a good staffe. 1580Baret Alv. C. 1799 He hath well curried thy cote. 1621Fletcher Isl. Princess iv. ii, I have seen him Curry a fellow's carcass handsomely. 1719D'Urfey Pills V. 227 This is the great Sir Francis Vere, That so the Spaniards curry'd. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 220 He swore..that..he would curry his hide till he made him run out of it.
†4. fig. To ‘stroke down’ (a person) with flattery or blandishment. Obs.
c1394P. Pl. Crede 365 Whou þey curry kinges & her back claweþ.
†b. intr. or absol. To employ flattery or blandishment, so as to cajole or win favour: cf. next.
c1400Test. Love i. (1560) 280 b/1 Tho curreiden glosours, tho welcomeden flatterers. 1575Brieff Disc. Troubl. at Franckford (1642) 167 Such as..can cap it, can cope it, and curry for advantage. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, v. i. 81 I would currie with Maister Shallow. 1830A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) II. 51 His Grace meant he was currying to the Duke of Newcastle.
5.
†a. to curry favel: to use insincere flattery, or unworthy compliance with the humour of another, in order to gain personal advantage. (Cf. curry-favel below.)[OF. estriller fauvel (fauveau, fauvain, also torcher fauvel) to curry the chestnut horse, hence, to employ deceit or hypocrisy, to gloze; cf. favel.] c1400Beryn 362 She toke hym by the swere, As þouȝe she had lernyd cury fauel of som olde ffrere. a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 189 The knyght or squier..but he hide The trouthe and cory favelle, he not the ner is His lordes grace. 1426Audelay Poems (Percy Soc.) 26 Loke thou core not favel ne be no flaterer. c1561Underhill Narr. Reform. (Camden Soc.) 159 Accordynge to the olde provearbe..He thatt wylle in courte abyde Must cory favelle bake and syde, for souche gett moste gayne. 1570T. Wilson Demosthenes 77 While they tell you a faire tale and curry fauell with you. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1610) 108 Her pickthanke favourits, who to curry Favell, spared not [etc.].
b. Later, this phrase was transformed into to curry favour: to seek to win favour, or ingratiate oneself with another, by officious courtesy or unworthy complaisance.
c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) F vj, Flatter not as do some, With none curry fauour. 1557N. T. (Genev.) Matt. viii. 20 note, He thoght by this meanes to courry fauour with the worlde. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 470 [It] was then by him published to curry favour with the Royalists. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 250 A set of bravos who..attempted to curry favour with the government by affronting members of the opposition. 1865Livingstone Zambesi xxiii. 472 Gossiping traders who seek to curry their favour.
†c. Hence occas. in other phrases of kindred meaning, as to curry acquaintance, curry good will, curry applause, curry friends, curry pardon.
1571Campion Hist. Ireland (1809) 162 He curryed acquaintance and friendship with meere Irish enemyes. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1303/2 He..seeketh all waies he could to currie the bishops good will. 1630Symmer Rest Weary i. A. iv. b, The proud and ambitious man..curryes the applause of the world with all his might. a1745Swift Poems, Dan Jackson's Reply, 'Tis true indeed, to curry friends, You seem to praise to make amends. 18..Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 250 Currying pardon for his past liberalism by charging..himself with the guilt of falsehood.
▪ VII. † curry, v.2 Obs.
[perh. derived from currier, common 16–18th c. form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Cf. scurry.]
intr. To ride or run with haste or rapidity; to scurry.
1608Chapman Byron's Conspir. v. Plays 1873 II. 245, I am not hee that can..by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles [etc.]. 1630J. Taylor (Water-P.) Discov. by Sea Wks. ii. 21/1 We with our Wherry..Along the christall Thames did cut and curry. 1676Marvell Mr. Smirke 34 A Sermon is soon curryed over.
▪ VIII. curry, v.3|ˈkʌrɪ|
[f. curry n.2]
trans. To flavour or prepare with curry or curry-powder.
1839Britannia 12 May, The culinary skill by which..Lord John Russell curried unfortunate Lord Morpeth into the yellow resemblance of a statesman. 1855[see curried]. |