curry1
/ˈkʌri
/- The foods served in the Balti pan are freshly cooked aromatically spiced curries.
- Lunch consists of rice served with vegetable and meat curries and sauces such as sambol, a spicy mixture of grated coconut and chili, peppers, pickles, and chutneys.
- Malays eat rice with fish or meat curry and vegetables cooked in various ways.
- The chef chooses quality and safe cuts of beef from Australia to prepare Western and Asian dishes that are curried, barbecued, braised, grilled, roasted or stewed.
- Meat and poultry eaters can select from succulently prepared lamb chops, curried or stir fried chicken, baby back ribs and beef tenderloin.
- Suggestions for fillings include curried chicken salad, or any other sandwich filling or vegetable combination.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Tamil kaṟi.
The curry that you eat comes from kari, a word meaning ‘sauce’ in the South Indian and Sri Lankan language Tamil. Travellers were bringing back tales of this spicy new food as early as 1598, and in 1747 a book called The Art of Cookery told its readers how ‘To make a Currey the Indian way’. See also vindaloo If you curry favour you try to win favour by flattering someone and behaving obsequiously. The expression dates from the early 16th century and has nothing at all to do with Indian cuisine. It comes from a different word, also spelled curry, meaning ‘to groom a horse with a coarse brush or comb’, which came into Middle English from Old French. Curry favour itself is an alteration of the medieval form curry favel. Favel or Fauvel was the name of a horse in a 14th-century French tale who became a symbol of cunning and deceit. So ‘to groom Favel’ came to mean to handle him in just as cunning a way, by flattering him or behaving in an ingratiating way.
Rhymes
curry2
/ˈkʌri/- Heaven help the poor kid who had to go in there, muck the floor, and curry the horse.
- Now he had to curry all the horses, and to clean out their shoes.
- With superb quickness she curried off the horse, who's winter coat had yet to shed out.
- The hide was first stretched on a variety of different frames, depending on the type of leather to be curried.
- Also, while it sounds like curried grain leather would work, I cannot find it used in this context, so I can't recommend it either.
Phrases
curry favour
Origin
Middle English: from Old French correier, ultimately of Germanic origin.