fried

See also: Fried

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɹaɪd/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -aɪd

Verb

fried

simple past tense and past participle of fry

Adjective

fried (comparative more fried, superlative most fried)

Cooked by frying.
(specifically, of an egg) Fried with the yolk unbroken.
He always ate his eggs fried, never scrambled.
Cooked in a deep fryer or pressure fryer or the like after being coated (breaded) in batter; compare deep-fried.
a bucket of fried chicken
- 2009, Parameswarakuma Mallikarjunan, Michael O. Ngadi, Manjeet S. Chinnan, Breaded Fried Foods, CRC Press (→ISBN), pages 51, section 3.6.1.:
  Innawong et al. (2006) conducted experiments to study the effect of using nitrogen gas on the quality of fried chicken nuggets during pressure frying in terms of moisture retention and reduction in fat […]
- 2012, Harry W. Lawson, Standards for Fats & Oils, Springer (→ISBN), page 98:
  The level of seasoning is lower when the chicken is to be open kettle fried; this is because the open kettle-fried chicken has a thicker coating of breading than chicken to be pressure fried. […] Gently shake the fry baskets several times to prevent the sticking of chicken pieces to each other, which can cause raw breading spots on the fried chicken.
(colloquial, of computer equipment) Broken as a result of excessive heat or an electrical surge.
It looks like your motherboard is fried.
(slang)
1. Stoned; under the influence of drugs.
  Man, I got totally fried on weed at Chad's party.
2. Drunk; under the influence of alcohol.
  - 1955, Noël Coward, What's Going to Happen to the Tots?
    The police had to send a squad car / When Daddy got fried on vodka
3. Extremely tired due to exertion or stress; exhausted.
  After nearly twelve hours at the office plus a nightmare commute home, I was fried and couldn’t think of anything but sleep.

Derived terms

chicken-fried
chicken-fried steak
country-fried
country-fried steak
deep-fat-fried
deep fried
deep-fried
French-fried
French fried potato
French-fried potato
french fried potato
french-fried potato
french-fried potatoes
French-fried potatoes
French fried potatoes
french fried potatoes
fried bread
fried chicken
fried egg
fried pie
fried rice
fried rice syndrome
Southern-fried
Southern fried
special fried rice
stir-fried
stir-fried ice cream

Translations

cooked by frying

Arabic: مَقْلِيّ‎ (maqliyy)
Egyptian Arabic: مقلي‎ (maqliyy)
Hijazi Arabic: مَقْلي‎ (magli)
Burmese: ကြော် (my) (krau)
Catalan: fregit (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 油煎 (yóujiān), 煎 (zh) (jiān)
Finnish: paistettu (fi)
French: frit (fr)
German: gebraten (de), frittiert (de)
Greek: τηγανητός (el) (tiganitós)
Hungarian: sült (hu)
Italian: fritto (it)
Japanese: 油で揚げた (ja) (あぶらであげた, abura de ageta), フライの (furai no)
Latin: frictus
Mansi: са̄ритым (sāritym)
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Mongolian: шарсан (mn) (šarsan)
Okinawan: please add this translation if you can
Polish: smażony (pl)
Portuguese: frito (pt)
Russian: жа́реный (ru) (žárenyj)
Scottish Gaelic: ròsta
Sicilian: frittu (adjective), frijutu (past participle)
Southern Altai: каарган (kaargan)
Spanish: frito (es)
Swedish: stekt (sv), friterad (sv)
Telugu: వేపుడు (te) (vēpuḍu)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkmen: gowrulan
Ukrainian: сма́жений (smáženyj)
Uyghur: قورۇمىسى‎ (qorumisi)
Welsh: wedi'i ffrio

of an egg: cooked by frying without breaking the yolk

Finnish: paistettu (fi)
Polish: sadzony (pl)

broken as a result of heat or electricity

French: grillé (fr)
Italian: bruciato (it)

Anagrams

Efird, Fedir, RIFed, fired, redif

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

fräd (chiefly Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Old High German wrēd(e), northwestern form of reid, from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (originally “twisted, bent”, figuratively “hostile, angry”). Cognate with Dutch wreed, English wroth. The attested wrēde could stand for *wreid, but the modern form seems to confirm an irregular early monophthong in this word.

The initial fr- < wr- is regular. Modern dialects usually have r-, but this is a fairly recent development as evidenced by the Middle High German records as well as the fact that fr- remains where there is no Standard German cognate. Compare rieve, but frequentative fribbele, both from the root of Proto-Germanic *wrībaną.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fʀiːt/

Adjective

fried (masculine friede, feminine fried, comparative frieder, superlative et friedste) (chiefly Ripuarian)

(of food and drink) tart, sharp to the taste, bitter or sour
(of the weather) rough
(of persons) tough, robust, resilient
(of persons) standoffish, aloof, unkind, callous