fry-pan

fry-pan

English

Noun

fry-pan (plural fry-pans)

1. Alternative form of frypan
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel […] . Next he put the mackerel in a fry-pan, and the shanty began to smell like a Banks boat just in from a v'yage.

   • 1936, Harry Botsford, “Wizards of the Fry-Pan”, in Field and Stream, volume 41, page 30:

     These men know and respect the heavy iron fry-pan.

   • 1993, John Davis Billings, Hardtack and Coffee, Or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life, page 134:

     But there was another fry-pan which distanced these both in respect of lightness and space.

   • 2009, Dane Coolidge, Hidden Water:

     Then, still deep in their talk, they filled their plates from the fry-pan, helped themselves to meat, wrapped the rest of the bread in the cloth, and sat comfortably back on their heels, eating with their fingers and knives.

Anagrams

• pan fry, pan-fry, panfry