currying

Verb (1)

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

1. (transitive) To cook or season with curry powder.

Verb (2)

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

1. (transitive) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
   • Your short horse is soon curried.1610–1614, John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Valentinian”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i
2. (transitive) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
3. (transitive) To beat, thrash; to drub.
   • I have seen him curry a fellow's carcase handsomely.c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii
4. (figuratively, transitive) To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
   • 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.2014 August 27, Stephanie Zacharek, “The Last of Robin Hood Wrestles with a Star's Underage Love”, in The Village Voice, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2014

Verb (3)

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

1. (transitive) To perform currying upon.
   • 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 […].2011, Zachary Kessin, Programming HTML5 Applications: Building Powerful Cross-Platform Environments in JavaScript, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 21

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