fry
See also: Fry
Translingual
Symbol
fry
- (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for West Frisian.
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: frī, IPA(key): /fɹaɪ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪ
Etymology 1
From Middle English fryen, borrowed from Old French frire, from Latin frīgō (“to roast, fry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-. Cognate with Ancient Greek φρύγω (phrúgō, “I roast, bake”), Sanskrit भृज्जति (bhṛjjati, “to roast, grill, fry”), भृग् (bhṛg, “the crackling of fire”). Replaced native Middle English hirsten, from Old English hierstan (“to fry”).
Verb
Eggs, tomatoes and mushrooms being fried in a frying pan
fry (third-person singular simple present fries, present participle frying, simple past and past participle fried)
- A method of cooking food.
- (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
- I am frying the eggs.
- (intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
- The eggs are frying.
- (obsolete) to simmer; to boil[1]
- 1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- With crackling flames a caldron fries.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- Ye might haue seene the frothy billowes fry
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- (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
- To be affected by extreme heat or current.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
- You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.
- (chiefly US, intransitive, slang) To be executed by the electric chair.
- He's guilty of murder — he's going to fry.
- (transitive, informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
- If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:cook
Coordinate terms
- (be executed in the eletric chair): swing
Derived terms
- air-fry
- bigger fish to fry
- deep-fat-fry
- deep-fry
- fish to fry
- flash-fry
- fried
- fryable
- frybread
- fry cook
- frying
- frying pan
- frypan
- fry pan
- fry someone's bacon
- fry up
- have other fish to fry
- mind-frying
- pan-fry
- shallow-fry
- stir-fry
Translations
to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
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(intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
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suffer because of too much heat
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informal: be executed by the electric chair
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Noun
fry (plural fries)
- (usually in the plural, fries, chiefly Canada and US, cooking) A fried piece of cut potato.
- Synonyms: chip, french fry
- (Ireland, Britain, cooking) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
- Synonym: fry-up
- (Australia, New Zealand, cooking) The liver of a lamb.
- Synonym: liver
- (usually in the plural, fries, US, cooking) A lamb or calf testicle.
- Synonyms: prairie oyster, Rocky Mountain oyster, tendergroin
- (colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
- to be in a fry
Derived terms
- a few fries short of a Happy Meal
- calf fries
- curly fry
- fish fry
- french fry
- fries
- fry sauce
- glottal fry
- Hangtown fry
- home fry
- lamb fries
- lamb's fry
- one fry short of a Happy Meal
- stir-fry
- three fries short of a Happy Meal
- Ulster fry
- vocal fry
Translations
fried potato
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meal of fried sausages, bacon, etc
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Etymology 2
From Middle English frie (“small fry, offspring”), of two possible origins:
- Traditionally derived from Old Norse frjó (“seed, semen”), from Proto-Germanic *fraiwą (“seed, semen, offspring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per-, *(s)prei- (“to strew, sow”). Cognate with Icelandic frjó (“pollen, seed”), Icelandic fræ (“seed”), Swedish frö (“seed, embryo, grain, germ”), Danish and Norwegian frø (“seed”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍅 (fraiw, “seed”).
- More likely from Old French *frie, *fri, collateral form of froi (“spawn”), from froier, freier (“to spawn”), from Latin fricō (“to rub”).
Noun
fry (uncountable)
- Young fish; fishlings.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
- it is not possible for man to sever the wheat from the tares, the good fish from the other frie; that must be the Angels Ministery at the end of mortall things.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
- (archaic) A swarm, especially of something small.
- a fry of children
- (UK dialectal) The spawn of frogs.
Derived terms
- small fry
Translations
young fish
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Etymology 3
Dialectal, of obscure origin.
Noun
fry (plural fries)
- A kind of sieve.
- A drain.
References
- fry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Middle English
Noun
fry
- Alternative form of frie
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From Old Norse frýja; cognate with Norwegian fry.
Verb
fry (preterite frydd)
- (transitive) To taunt, challenge one to a fight, wrestling, a bet, etc.
- (with infinitive) To dare, have the courage.
- Han frydd säg int gå dill sjöss ― He dared not go to sea.
- (imperative) As a word of challenge.
- Fry däg hit! ― Come here, I dare you!