Obs. [See CURRY v.1 5 b.]
1. = prec.
1577. Holinshed, Chron., II. 144. A number of prodigal currie favours, who by flatterie set him aloft.
1586. A. Day, Eng. Secretary, II. (1625), 116. Men infected with this basenesse of condition, being … Curri-favours of the world.
1658. Phillips, Curriedow, a curry-favour, or flatterer.
2. The action of currying favor with others.
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, cxliii. (1887), 276. We … yeilde to curtesie more, then euen the verie patrones of curtesie do, for all their curifauour.
So † Curry-favourer = prec. 1.
1563. Nowel, Serm. bef. Queen (1853), 225. Their subjects, servants, curry-favourers, and others, will follow.
