(pl. -ies)
- a dish of meat, vegetables, etc., cooked in an Indian-style sauce of strong spices and turmeric and typically served with rice咖喱菜肴。
-ies, -ied
with obj. [usu. as adj. curried] prepare or flavour with a sauce of hot-tasting spices用咖喱（粉）做（菜）; 给…加咖喱（粉）：curried chicken.
咖喱鸡。
词源
late 16th cent.: from Tamil kaṟi.
(-ies, -ied)with obj.
1
- chiefly N. Amer. groom (a horse) with a rubber or plastic curry-comb〈主北美〉用马梳梳（马） 。
2
- historical treat (tanned leather) to improve its properties〈史〉鞣制（鞣革）。
2.1
- archaic thrash; beat〈古〉鞭打, 打。
短语
curry favour
- ingratiate oneself with someone through obsequious behaviour讨好, 拍马屁：
a wimpish attempt to curry favour with the new bosses.
讨好新上司的懦弱尝试。
[ORIGIN: alteration of Middle English curry favel, from the name （Favel or Fauvel） of a chestnut horse in a 14th-cent. French romance who became a symbol of cunning and duplicity; hence ' to rub down Favel' meant to use the cunning which he personified]
词源
Middle English: from Old French correier, ultimately of Germanic origin.