curry

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈkʌ.ɹi/    /ˈkʌ.ɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce. countable,uncountable
    — beef curry
  2. Obsolete form of quarry. alt-of,obsolete
  3. A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavored with curry powder. countable,uncountable
  4. Curry powder. countable,uncountable
  5. A person of South Asian heritage. countable,derogatory,ethnic,slur,uncountable
    — […] 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.”
动词 v.
  1. To cook or season with curry powder. transitive
  2. To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb. transitive
    — Your short horse is soon curried.
  3. To perform currying upon. transitive
    — 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 […].
  4. To scurry; to ride or run hastily intransitive,obsolete
  5. To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring. transitive
  6. To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range). obsolete,transitive
    — I am not hee that can ... by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles.
  7. To beat, thrash; to drub. transitive
    — I have seen him curry a fellow's carcase handsomely.
  8. To hurry. obsolete,transitive
    — A sermon is soon curryed over.
  9. To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering. figuratively,transitive
    — 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.

词形变化

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词源

词源 1
1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”), from Middle French cuyre (“to cook”) (whence also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.
Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of Richard II of England.
词源 2
From Middle English currayen, from Old French correer (“to prepare”), presumably from Vulgar Latin *conredare, from Latin com- (a form of con- (“with; together”)) + a verb derived from Proto-Germanic *raidaz. More at ready.
词源 3
Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry.
词源 4
Possibly derived from currier, a common 16th- to 18th-century form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Possibly influenced by scurry.
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