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Definition: Curry Favour |
Curry FavourVerb1. Seek favor by fawning or flattery; "This employee is currying favor with his superordinates". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Curry Favour The French courir, to hunt after, to seek, as courir une charge, courir un bénéfice, to sue for a living; courir les tables, to go a spunging. Similarly, courir les faveurs, to sue for, court, or seek, favours. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Curry FavourSynonyms: court favor (v), court favour (v), curry favor (v). (additional references) |
Expressions using "curry favour": curry favour with ♦ curry favour with smb.. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "curry favour"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ia kreh bishtin dikujt (curry favor with smb., curry favour with smb.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تملق (adulate, blandish, blarney, butter, butter up, cajole, cajolery, coax, coaxing, compliment, con, court, cringe, curry favor with, curry favour with, fawn, flatter, flattery, incense, ingratiate oneself, insinuation, kowtow, lick his boots, make, mawkish, oiliness, palaver, servilism, soap, soft soap, subservience, suck up to, sweet talk, taffy, toady, wheedle), سعى لكسب ود شخص (curry favor with, curry favour with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | подмазвам се (crouch, curry favor, fawn, ingratiate smb., slaver, smarm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | podlézat komu (crawl along at, crawl to smb., curry favour with smb., fawn on). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | liehakoida jonkun suosioon (curry favour with, insinuate oneself into a person's good graces), hännystellä jotakuta (cringe before, curry favour with, fawn upon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | chercher gagner la faveur de qn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | udvarol vkinek (to curry favour with sy, to make court to sy, to make love to sy, to make up to sy, to pay court to sy, to pay one's address to sy), nyüzsög vki körül (to be all over sy, to curry favour with sy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 人の金玉'握る (to curry favour with one's superior, to grab a person by his vulnerable spot), 吮癰舐" (curry favour by sucking pus from carbuncles and licking hemorrhoids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひとのき"たま'にぎる (to curry favour with one's superior, to grab a person by his vulnerable spot), せ"ようしじ (curry favour by sucking pus from carbuncles and licking hemorrhoids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urrycay avourfay cãuta sã intre în graţiile cuiva (curry favor with smb., curry favour with smb.), se da bine pe lângã cineva (curry favor with smb., curry favour with smb.). (various references) выслужиться (curry favor). (various references) ulagivati se (adulate, curry favor, fawn, fawn on, flatter, kowtow, pander, rush, toady, toady to). (various references) congraciarse con (curry favor, fawn on). (various references) ställa in hos (curry favor with, curry favour with), fria till ngns gunst (curry favor with, curry favour with). (various references) підлещуватися (adulate, crouch, curry favor, flatter, palaver, wheedle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-o-r-r-r-u-u-v-y" | |
-5 letters: favour, orfray. | |
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