Curry vs Ingratiate - What's the difference?
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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
To cook or season with curry powder.
(label) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
* (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
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, title= (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)
* 1663 , (Hudibras) , by , part 1,
(label) To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
(computing) To perform currying upon.
(obsolete) To scurry; to ride or run hastily.
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(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
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
(obsolete) To hurry.
* 1676 , Andrew Marvell, Mr. Smirke 34
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(reflexive) To bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please him or her.
* 1849 , , Shirley , ch. 15:
* 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh , ch. 58:
* 2007 July 9, , "
To recommend; to render easy or agreeable.
* , "Sermon XIII" in Miscellaneous Theological Works of Henry Hammond, Volume 3 (1850 edition),
As a proper noun curry
is a family name of irish origin, from.As a verb ingratiate is
(reflexive) to bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please him or her.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)Synonyms
* (dish) Ruby Murray (rhyming slang) * (curry powder) curry powderDerived terms
* curry leaf * curry paste * curry powder * currywurst * give someone currySee also
* piccalilli (Related Indian dishes) * balti * bhaji * bhuna * biryani * chilli * chutney * dhansak * dopiaza * garam masala * herb * jalfresi * karahi * korma * madras * makhani, makhonee * moghlai * naan * pakora * papadum, poppadum * paratha * pasanda * phall * roghan josh * samosa * spice * tandoor * tandoori * tikka masala * vindalooVerb
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 verbVerb
- Your short horse is soon curried .
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- I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely.
- By setting brother against brother / To claw and curry one another.
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 favorEtymology 3
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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
- I am not hee that can ... by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles.
- All these shots shall curry or finish their ranges in times equal to each other.
- A sermon is soon curryed over.
References
ingratiate
English
Verb
- [H]e considered this offering an homage to his merits, and an attempt on the part of the heiress to ingratiate herself into his priceless affections.
- [H]e would pat the children on the head when he saw them on the stairs, and ingratiate himself with them as far as he dared.
Why Maliki Is Still Around," Time (retrieved 26 May 2014):
- He ingratiated himself with the Kurdish bloc when he stood up to aggressive Turkish rhetoric about the Kurdish border in May.
p. 283 (Google preview):
- What difficulty would it [the love of Christ] not ingratiate to us?