Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Curry Favour

Definition: Curry Favour

Curry Favour

Verb

1. 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.
 


Specialty Definition: Curry Favour

DomainDefinition

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.

Top     

Synonyms: Curry Favour

Synonyms: court favor (v), court favour (v), curry favor (v). (additional references)

Top     

Expressions: Curry Favour

Expressions using "curry favour": curry favour with curry favour with smb.. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translation: Curry Favour

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

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

выслужиться (curry favor). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ulagivati se (adulate, curry favor, fawn, fawn on, flatter, kowtow, pander, rush, toady, toady to). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

congraciarse con (curry favor, fawn on). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ställa in hos (curry favor with, curry favour with), fria till ngns gunst (curry favor with, curry favour with). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

підлещуватися (adulate, crouch, curry favor, flatter, palaver, wheedle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Anagrams: Curry Favour

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-f-o-r-r-r-u-u-v-y"

-5 letters: favour, orfray.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.