currynoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈkʌr.i/us/ˈkɝː.i/A2 a dish, originally from South Asia, consisting of meat or vegetables cooked in a spicy sauce:
a hot (= very spicy) curry
a mild (= slightly spicy) curry
vegetable/chicken/lamb curry
curry sauce
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- You often use clarified butter when making curry.
- Let's make the 9th a definite - we'll have a curry and then go to the movies.
- I made enough curry for three people and he ate the lot.
- He doesn't like a hot curry - he prefers a mild one.
- I'm going to plump for the vegetable curry.
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Savoury dishes
- baked beans
- balti
- bobotie
- bolognese
- bubble and squeak
- fish and chips
- fondue
- French toast
- fricassee
- fry-up
- omelette
- paella
- pakora
- pate
- pilau
- stew
- sticky rice
- stir-fry
- stroganoff
- sushi
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curried
adjective uk/ˈkʌr.id/us/ˈkɝː.id/
curried eggs/fish
curryverb
uk/ˈkʌr.i/us/ˈkɝː.i/curry verb (TRY TO PLEASE)
curry favour disapproving
to praise someone, especially someone in authority, in a way that is not sincere, in order to get some advantage for yourself:
He's always trying to curry favour with the boss.
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Praising insincerely or too eagerly
- arse-licker
- bow and scrape idiom
- brown-nose
- crawler
- creep
- fawn
- flattery
- flattery will get you nowhere idiom
- glad-handing
- grovel
- idealize
- left-handed compliment
- massage
- massage sb's ego idiom
- obsequious
- play up to sb
- schmooze
- slobber
- toady
- unctuous
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curry verb (FOOD)
[ T ] to make a curry with something:
Let's curry the leftover meat.
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Preparing food using heat
- bake
- barbecue
- baste
- batch-bake
- boil sth up
- boiled
- flambé
- flash-fry
- fried
- frizzled
- fry
- lightly
- microwave
- precook
- preheat
- render
- render sth down
- rendering
- sauté
- shallow-fry
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curry verb (HORSE)
[ T ] specialized horses to clean and brush a horse with a special comb
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Horse riding
- dismount
- dressage
- gait
- gymkhana
- high-spirited
- horse riding
- horseback riding
- horseshoe
- horsey
- jib at sth
- mount
- mounted
- prance
- puissance
- rein
- rein sth in
- showjumping
- silk
- trot
- unsaddle
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