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curry favour

curry favour is the alternative spelling of curry favor.

Meaning of curry favor

Verb

curry favor (third-person singular simple present curries favor, present participle currying favor, simple past and past participle curried favor)

  1. (idiomatic) To seek to gain favor by flattery or attention.
    • […]always promising to pay, promising to pay, tomorrow, and dying today, insolvent; seeking to curry favor, to get custom, by how many modes, only not state-prison offences;[…]1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC

Forms of curry favour

third-person singular presentcurries favour
present participlecurrying favour
past participlecurried favour
pastcurried favour

Questions about curry favour

What is curry favour the alternative spelling of?
Curry favour is the alternative spelling of curry favor.

Words near curry favour in the dictionary

  1. curry chips
  2. curry comb
  3. curry combs
  4. Curry County
  5. curry favor
  6. curry favour
  7. curry house
  8. curry houses
  9. curry ketchup
  10. curry ketchups
  11. curry leaf

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