Curry vs Fawn - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between curry and fawn

is that curry is one of a family of dishes originating from South Asian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce while fawn is a young deer.

As verbs the difference between curry and fawn

is that curry is to cook or season with curry powder while fawn is to give birth to a fawn.

As a proper noun Curry

is a family name of Irish origin, from Ó Comhraidhe.

As an adjective fawn is

of the fawn colour.

curry

English

(wikipedia curry)

Etymology 1

1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English(Hannah Glasse), Glasse’s , 1747), from (etyl) . Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook (Forme of Cury) (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of (Richard II of England).

Noun

(curries)

One of a family of dishes originating from South Asian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce.

A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavoured with curry powder.

Curry powder

Synonyms

* (dish) Ruby Murray (rhyming slang) * (curry powder) curry powder

Derived terms

* curry leaf * curry paste * curry powder * currywurst * give someone curry

Verb

To cook or season with curry powder.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) currayen, from (etyl) correer 'to prepare', presumably from Vulgar (etyl) conredare, from com- (a form of con- 'together') + some Germanic base verb

Verb

(label) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.

* (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)

Your short horse is soon curried .

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(label) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.

(label) To beat, thrash; to drub.

* (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)

I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely.

* 1663 , (Hudibras) , by , part 1,

By setting brother against brother / To claw and curry one another.

(label) To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.

Usage notes

The sense "To win or gain favour" is most frequently used in the phrases "to curry favour (with)" and "to curry [someone's] favour",

Derived terms

* curry favor

Etymology 3

From , a computer scientist

Verb

(computing) To perform currying upon.

Etymology 4

Possibly derived from currier , a common 16-18th century form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Possibly influenced by scurry.

Verb

(obsolete) To scurry; to ride or run hastily.

(obsolete) To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).

* 1608 , George Chapman, The Conspiracie, and Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron 2.245

I am not hee that can ... by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles.

* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)

All these shots shall curry or finish their ranges in times equal to each other.

(obsolete) To hurry.

* 1676 , Andrew Marvell, Mr. Smirke 34

A sermon is soon curryed over.

References

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fawn

English

(wikipedia fawn)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) faon.

Noun

(en noun)

A young deer.

A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.

(obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.

* Holland

[The tigress] after her fawns .

Adjective

(-)

Of the fawn colour.

Derived terms

* fawn lily

Verb

(en verb)

To give birth to a fawn.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) fawnen, from (etyl) fahnian, fagnian, . See also fain.

Verb

(en verb)

To exhibit affection or attempt to please.

To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on'' or ''upon ).

* Shakespeare

You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds.

* Milton

Thou with trembling fear, / Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest.

* Macaulay

courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him

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(of a dog) To wag its tail, to show devotion.

Synonyms

* (seek favour by flattery) grovel, wheedle

Derived terms

* fawn over

References

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