currycel

English

Etymology

From curry +‎ -cel, referencing the stereotype of curry as a staple of Indian cuisine.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkʌ.ɹiˌsɛl/

Noun

currycel (plural currycels)

  1. (incel slang, often offensive) An incel of South Asian (especially Indian) heritage.
    • 2019, anonymous, quoted in Clara Rubertsson, "'The majority of females are selfish and don’t want to help us lonely men out': En netnografisk studie om män som är incels", thesis submitted to Lund University, page 33:
      Currycel teen, extreme manlet (5'5 3/4 but I say 5'6 so I can make myself seem taller), incel because I am curry in the west, and if you are ethnic in the west you are fucked unless you can pass as either white, latino or black.
    • 2020, Angus Charles Lindsay, "Swallowing the Black Pill: A Qualitative Exploration of Incel Antifeminism within Digital Society", thesis submitted to Victoria University of Wellington, page 83:
      Particularly for self-described ‘currycels,’ there seemed to be a consensus that white Incels held a higher value on the sexual market.
    • 2022 June, Ksenija Bogetic, anonymous quotee, “Race and the language of incels: Figurative neologisms in an emerging English cryptolect”, in English Today, volume 39, number 2:
      So are you suggesting me to stay in india among currycels where I earn mediocre salary?
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:currycel.