CURRY
What does "CURRY" mean?
A dish of meat, vegetables, or fish cooked in a spiced, often sauce-based seasoning.
Meanings
- A savoury dish of South or Southeast Asian origin cooked in a blend of spices. We ordered a green curry and a stack of warm naan.
- To prepare or flavour food with a spiced curry sauce. She curried the leftover chicken for lunch.
- To groom a horse with a curry-comb; chiefly in the phrase 'curry favour', to win approval by flattery. He was always trying to curry favour with the manager. figurative
Did you know?
- 'Curry favour' has no connection to spice: it warps the medieval phrase 'curry Favel', meaning to brush down a chestnut horse named Favel who stood for sly flattery in a popular 14th-century allegory.
Word origin
The food sense is from Tamil 'kari', meaning sauce or relish for rice. The grooming verb is unrelated, from Old French 'correier', to prepare or arrange.
Remember it
CURRY has a double-R simmering in the middle, like the pot bubbling away.
A little poem
Spice blooms in hot oil-
the whole street leans toward one door
and forgets the cold.
haiku
Wordplay
- He tried to curry favour with the chef, but the chef said flattery has no flavour.
What it teaches
Two words can share a spelling and no history; assume nothing from a name alone.
Quick facts
What does CURRY mean?
A dish of meat, vegetables, or fish cooked in a spiced, often sauce-based seasoning.
Is CURRY a valid word?
Yes — CURRY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CURRY?
CURRY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does CURRY come from?
The food sense is from Tamil 'kari', meaning sauce or relish for rice. The grooming verb is unrelated, from Old French 'correier', to prepare or arrange.
What can CURRY teach us?
Two words can share a spelling and no history; assume nothing from a name alone.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.