curry
Speech parts
1. curry - Noun
2. curry - Verb
3. Curry - Proper noun
Meaning
To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean.
To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.
A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.
To flavor or cook with curry.
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Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.
In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice!
Capitulation, sycophancy, and cowardice will only undermine us... Sometimes, you have to courageously follow your own path and not try to curry favor with anyone.
Lord Peter Wimsey: Everybody suspects an eager desire to curry favour, but rudeness, for some reason, is always accepted as a guarantee of good faith. The only man who ever managed to see through rudeness was Saint Augustine.
When the curry is tasty, the rice is hard.
Peppa bu'n hot, but ih good fi curry.