currie

Noun

curry (countable and uncountable, plural curries)

1. One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce.
   • beef curry

   Synonyms:

   Ruby Murray

2. A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavored with curry powder.
3. Curry powder.

   Synonyms:

   curry powder

4. (derogatory, ethnic, slur, incel slang) A person of South Asian heritage.
   • […] 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...

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Noun (1)

quarry (plural quarries)

1. A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.
   • Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.

   Synonyms:

   delf

Noun (2)

quarry (countable and uncountable, plural quarries)

1. (obsolete, uncountable) A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
   • Quarry, among hunters, is ſometimes uſed for part of the viſcera of the beaſt taken; given by way of reward to the hounds.[1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “Quarry”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volumes II (I–Z), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page...
2. (uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
   • Is it not our very Caſe now, that when our Souls, Good-Names, Bodies and Fortunes are at Stake, we muſt be running out at Check, after every Crow, Buzzard, or Jack-daw that comes in the way, and leave the main Chance at laſt at Six and Seven? Nay, and here's this more in't too, that the Quarry...1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[A Supplement of Fables […].] Fab[le] CCCCLXX. A Farmer and His Servant.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC...
3. (countable) An object of search or pursuit.
   • In a verſe, when a worde of three ſillables cannot thruſt in but ſidelings, to joynt him even, we are oftentimes faine to borrowe ſome leſſer quarry of elocution from the Latine, alwaies retaining this for a principle, that a leake of indeſinence , as a leake in a ſhip, muſt needly be ſtopt with...1592, Tho[mas] Nashe, “The Foure Letters Confuted”, in Strange Newes, of the Intercepting Certaine Letters and a Convoy of Verses, […], London: […] Iohn Danter, […], →OCLC; republished in J[ohn]...

Noun (3)

quarry (plural quarries)

1. A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.
   • The boyes playing at ſtooleball, by chaunce broke a quarry of the glaſſe, whereupon he complayned to the Towneſhip, and either had, or did his utmoſt to haue the poor boy whipt, […]1615, Anthony Nixon, The Scovrge of Corruption. Or A Crafty Knave Needs No Broker, London: Printed at London, for Henry Gosson, and William Houlmes, and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head...

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