Curry

/ˈkʌ.ɹi/ · noun

Meaning

One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce..

Definitions by Sense

1. One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce.
2. A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavored with curry powder.
3. Curry powder.
4. (incel slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of South Asian heritage.
5. (transitive) To cook or season with curry powder.
6. (transitive) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
7. (transitive) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
8. (transitive) To beat, thrash; to drub.

Example Sentences

[…] 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.”

For example, spicycurry says, “STOP THE COPE NOW. The only ones who should be complaining about race are us curries who are literally at the bottom of the pile.”

People get mixed up by thinking race is #1 because girls aren't going for asians and curries.

Your short horse is soon curried.

One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.

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

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

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.

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• curries
• currey
• currie
• currying
• curried

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