[Sca-cooks] Fw: More gerbil madness
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 22 19:05:18 PST 2005
--- Sue Clemenger <mooncat at in-tch.com> wrote:
> Cute name for the dog! If you were a
> mathemetician, he could have been
> "PIdeaux" for a double pun.
> I have a cat named Curye...after Curye on
> Inglisch (sp?). That, and the
> fact that as a kitten, she liked yellow and
> green curries. ;-)
> --maire
Except that Curye as in Curye on Inglisch means
"cookery", so the title actually means English
Cookery. Form of Cury means Form of Cookery.
Curye absolutely does _not_ mean curry, as in
yellow and green curries from India.
>From the OED:
[a. OF. keuerie, queuerie, queurie (14th c.),
cookery, kitchen, f. keu, queu, coeu:L. coquus,
cocus cook: see -ERY.]
a. Cookery. (Also the concoction of substances
in alchemy.) b. Cooked food; a dish.
1387 TREVISA Higden (Rolls) I. 405 They conne ete
and be mury Withoute grete kewery. [CAXTON cury,
Higden coquorum artificia]. ?c1390 (title), Form
of Cury. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 1063 Here es cury
un-clene, carle, be my trowthe. c1460 J. RUSSELL
Bk. Nurture 506 Cookes with theire newe
conceytes..Many new curies..they are contryvynge
& Fyndynge. 1513 DOUGLAS Æneis VIII. Prol. 95
Throw cury of the quentassens
Huette
=====
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they shall never cease to be amused.
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