• (British) enPR: kŭrʹē, IPA: /ˈkʌɹ.i/
• (America) IPA: /ˈkʌɹ.i/, /ˈkɝ.i/

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

curry

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

   Synonyms: Ruby Murray

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

   Synonyms: curry powder

4. (incel slang, derogatory) An Indian
5. (piracy slang) someone who begs for invite for private trackers on /ptg/(private tracker general) of 4chan

• French: curry
• German: Curry
• Italian: curry
• Portuguese: curry, caril
• Russian: ка́рри
• Spanish: curri

• French: cari
• German: Currysoße, Curry
• Portuguese: caril
• Russian: ка́рри
• Spanish: curry, cari

curry (curries, present participle currying; simple past and past participle curried)

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

From Middle English currayen, from Old French correer, presumably from Vulgar Latin *conredare, from Latin com- (a form of con-) + a verb derived from Proto-Germanic *raidaz.

curry (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.
   • 1610–1614, John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Valentinian”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC ↗, Act II, scene i:

     Your short horse is soon curried.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗:

     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.

2. (transitive) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
3. (transitive) To beat, thrash; to drub.
   • c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC ↗, Act IV, scene ii:

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

   • 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC ↗; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC ↗:

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

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

• German: kardätschen, striegeln
• Italian: strigliare

• German: nasszurichten

• German: dreschen
• Russian: би́ть

curry (curries, present participle currying; simple past and past participle curried)

1. (transitive, computing) To perform currying upon.

• German: schönfinkeln, curryen

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

curry (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, section 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, section 34:

     A sermon is soon curryed over.

curry (plural curries)

1. Obsolete form of quarry

1. Surname, anglicized from Irish Ó Comhraidhe.
2. Surname, a variant of Corr.
3. Surname, a variant of Currie.
4. Surname, a variant of Currie.
5. A village and townland in Sligo.
6. A locale in US.
   1. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Alabama.
   2. An unincorporated community in Talladega County, Alabama.
   3. An unincorporated community in Walker County, Alabama.
   4. A ghost town in Alaska.