For what its worth (and proper names, to unmuddle confusion, can be worth a lot), the above mentioned "curry" function in ANSI Common Lisp is called partial application, that is, you apply a few fixed arguments and return a new function that takes a lower number of arguments, with the first already pre-populated.
Excellent for making lots of custom functions for producing different HTML tags, and that kind of thing. In javascript, libraries often name that function "partial", which saves "curry" for currying.
