curry

plural curries · alternative obsolete currey · alternative archaic currie

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

   beef curry

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   vegetarian curry

   navy curry

   Yokosuka curry

   Synonyms: Ruby Murray

2. countableuncountableA spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavored with curry powder.
3. countableuncountableCurry powder.

   Synonyms: curry powder

4. countablederogatoryethnicsluruncountableincel slangA person of South Asian heritage.

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

   2024, anonymous, quoted in Václav Báča, "Hierarchy at the Bottom of the Hierarchy: Involuntary Celibates, Identity, and Race", thesis submitted to Charles University, page 40

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   […] 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.”

   2020, Anthony Glyn Burton, "'I would do anything to not call this place home': The black pill, involuntary celibacy, and the neoliberal male grasp in digital incel communities", thesis submitted to Ryerson University & York University, pages 92-93

   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.”

   2020, Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don’t Understand... It’s Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, pages 29-30

present singular third person curries · participle present currying · participle past curried · past curried · alternative obsolete currey · alternative archaic currie

1. transitiveTo cook or season with curry powder.

present singular third person curries · participle present currying · participle past curried · past curried

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

   Your short horse is soon curried.

   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

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   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.

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

2. transitiveTo dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
3. transitiveTo beat, thrash; to drub.

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

   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

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

   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

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

   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.

   2014 August 27, Stephanie Zacharek, “The Last of Robin Hood Wrestles with a Star's Underage Love”, in The Village Voice, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2014

present singular third person curries · participle present currying · participle past curried · past curried

1. transitivecomputingTo perform currying (“the technique of converting a function that takes multiple arguments into a sequence of functions that each take a single argument”) on (a function, a parameter, etc.).

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

   2015, Leonardo Borges, Clojure Reactive Programming, Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 194

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   Take two curryings #92;Gamma#95;1((N#92;timesN#92;rightarrowN)#92;times(N#92;timesN#92;rightarrowN)#92;timesL#92;rightarrowL))#61;(N#92;timesN#92;rightarrowN)#92;times(N#92;timesN#92;rightarrowN)#92;rightarrow(L#92;rightarrowL) and #92;Gamma#95;2((N#92;timesN#92;rightarrowN)#92;times(N#92;timesN#92;rightarrowN)#92;timesL#92;timesN#92;rightarrowL))#61;(N#92;timesN#92;rightarrowN)#92;times(N#92;timesN#92;rightarrowN)#92;rightarrow(L#92;timesN#92;rightarrowL). Currying #92;mathcal#123;R#125; twice, we have the following curried SRS [S-expression rewriting system] #92;Gamma#95;2(#92;Gamma#95;1(#92;mathcal#123;R#125;)).

   2004, Yoshihito Toyama, “Termination of S-Expression Rewriting Systems: Lexicographic Path Ordering for Higher-Order Terms”, in Vincent van Oostrom, editor, Rewriting Techniques and Applications: 15th International Conference, RTA 2004, Aachen, Germany, June 3–5, 2004: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 3091), Berlin; Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 53

   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 […]

   2011, Zachary Kessin, Programming HTML5 Applications: Building Powerful Cross-Platform Environments in JavaScript, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 21

   In first-order rewriting, the question whether properties such as confluence and termination are preserved under currying or uncurrying is studied in [5,6,2]. In [6] a currying transformation from (functional) term rewriting systems (TRSs) into applicative term rewriting systems (ATRSs) is defined; a TRS is terminating if and only if its curried form is.

   2011, Cynthia Kop, “Simplifying Algebraic Functional Systems”, in Franz Winkler, editor, Algebraic Informatics: 4th International Conference, CAI 2011, Linz, Austria, June 21–24, 2011: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 6742), Berlin; Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 212

present singular third person curries · participle present currying · participle past curried · past curried

1. intransitiveobsoleteTo scurry; to ride or run hastily
2. obsoletetransitiveTo cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).

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

   1608, George Chapman, The Conspiracie, and Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron, section 2.245

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

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

3. obsoletetransitiveTo hurry.

   A sermon is soon curryed over.

   1676, Andrew Marvell, Mr. Smirke, section 34

plural curries

1. obsoleteObsolete form of quarry.

alternative Corey · alternative Corry

1. A surname from Irish, anglicized from Irish Ó Comhraidhe (“descendant of Comhraidhe”).

   Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry has accepted the role of assistant general manager for the basketball programs at alma mater Davidson College.

   2025 March 11, Matias Grez, “Steph Curry accepts assistant general manager role at alma mater Davidson College”, in CNN, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2025

2. An Irish surname, a variant of Corr.
3. An Irish surname, a variant of Currie.
4. A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic, a variant of Currie.
5. A village and townland in County Sligo, Ireland (Irish grid ref G 4906).
6. A locale in the United States:
   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.
   5. An unincorporated community in Twin Falls County, Idaho.