Meaning
Curry — both the golden, spiced dish (curry goat and curry chicken are Sunday and celebration staples) and the verb 'to curry' meat or seafood. Made with Jamaican curry powder, Scotch bonnet, thyme, and pimento, it is deep in the island's Indian-influenced cooking. Figuratively 'everyting cook an curry' means all is settled and going well; 'hurry hurry mek bad curry' warns that rushing spoils the pot.
Examples
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Wi a cook curry goat fi di nine night.
We're cooking curry goat for the nine-night.
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Curry di chicken wid plenty seasoning.
Curry the chicken with plenty of seasoning.
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Everyting cook an curry.
Everything is cooked and curried.
Idiom: all is settled and going well.
Origin
From English 'curry' (via Tamil 'kari'). See [[everyting-cook-an-curry]].
How it’s used
The dish and the verb; note idioms 'cook an curry' (all well) and 'hurry hurry mek bad curry'.