curry stuff

noun

The ingredients that are ground to make curry powder.

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Meanings

nouncurry stuff (countable and uncountable, plural curry stuffs)

plural curry stuffs

  1. countableuncountableThe ingredients that are ground to make curry powder.

    The air was all smell – curry-stuff, durian, fish and flesh – and the noise was of hoicking and chaffering.

    1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115
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    The curry powders of India are articles of considerable commercial traffic; 32,550 cwt. of curry stuff was imported into Ceylon, chiefly from India, in 1851.

    1871, Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, volume 1

    The Gulnare brought us a few comforts in the shape of fresh provisions, fruits and curry stuffs, for which the Malayan Archipelago is famous, and with her came a supply of cocoanuts, which would have fully stocked an average plantation.

    1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 127
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