Curry vs Wonder - 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)
*, chapter=11
, 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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Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel.
* , chapter=8
, title= Something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable.
Someone very talented at something, a genius.
The sense or emotion which can be inspired by something curious or unknown; surprise; astonishment.
* (Plato), Theætetus (section 155d)
* Bible, (w) iii. 10
* 1781 , (Samuel Johnson), The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
(UK, informal) A mental pondering, a thought.
* 1934 , Katharine Tynan, The house of dreams
To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.
* (Jonathan Swift), (w, Gulliver's Travels)
* Johnson
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
To ponder; to feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind.
* (William Shakespeare)
As a proper noun curry
is a family name of irish origin, from.As a noun wonder is
one of the.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
From , a computer scientistVerb
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
wonder
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}
- Socrates: I see, my dear Theaetetus, that Theodorus had a true insight into your nature when he said that you were a philosopher, for wonder' is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in ' wonder . He was not a bad genealogist who said that Iris (the messenger of heaven) is the child of Thaumas (wonder).
- They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
- All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.
- Miss Paynter had a little wonder as to whether the man, as she called Mr. Lacy in her own mind, had ever been admitted to this room. She thought not.
Derived terms
* bewonder * boy wonder * girl wonder * gutless wonder * little wonder * nine day wonder * no wonder * one hit wonder * * small wonder * Wonder Woman * wonderberry * wonderboy * wonderbra * wonderchild * wonderdrug * wonderful * wonderland * wonderment * wondrous, wonderous * wonderworker * work wondersVerb
(en verb)- I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals.
- We cease to wonder at what we understand.
- I wonder , in my soul, / What you would ask me, that I should deny.