🐴 Groomed with brush 🐴 To brush animal 🍛 With curry spices

curried

7.5

Brushed with a currycomb, usually on horses

adjective
/ˈkɜːrid/

: cepillado

Each horse in the stable gets curried daily to maintain a shiny and healthy coat.

Examples

The horse looked beautiful after it had been curried and groomed for the show.
After a long day of work, the groomed dogs are always curried to keep their coats smooth.
We have curried chicken, giant bowl of rice with are these crispy onions, expensive onions on our rice.
They have that tannic Tang of bird and leaf curried water from the forest.

Synonyms

groomed

vscurried

3.0

Neat and clean in appearance because someone cares for it

refers to being cleaned with a currycomb for animals rather than general neatness

brushed

vscurried

1.3

Having hair or clothes smoothed to look neat

means cleaned with a currycomb for animals rather than stroked hair or clothes

slicked up

vscurried

6.3

Looks tidy and neat after an extra effort to look good

describes cleaning with a currycomb for animals rather than stylish human neatness

Antonyms

dirty

525 1.0

Not clean or covered with dirt

uncared-for

1 4.2

Not looked after and left in bad condition

How Groomed

well-groomed

9 3.5

curried

7.5

groomed

3.0

brushed

1.3

unkempt

13 5.1

Surface Forms

curried positive

Morphology

curried = curry (transparent) = curry + ed

Adjectival past-participial use of the verb 'curry' (to groom) with the regular -ed suffix; meaning follows directly from 'curry'.

Etymology

Curried used for an animal comes from the tool called the currycomb, a stiff brush used to rub and clean horses. So a curried horse is one that has been carefully brushed and groomed.