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currying favor

currying favor is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about currying favor

What is currying favor the present participle and gerund of?
Currying favor is the present participle and gerund of curry favor.

Words near currying favor in the dictionary

  1. currycombs
  2. curryfish
  3. curryhouse
  4. curryhouses
  5. currying
  6. currying favor
  7. currying favour
  8. curryings
  9. curryjong
  10. curryjongs
  11. curryless

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