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fry¹
- /fɹaɪ/
Rhymes with -aɪ
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English fryen, borrowed from Old French frire, from Latin frīgō. Cognate with Ancient Greek φρύγω (phrúgō, “to roast, bake”), Sanskrit भृज्जति (bhṛjjati, “to roast, grill, fry”). Replaced native Middle English hirsten, from Old English hierstan (“to fry”). Related to bhurji, bhujia (“fried Indian snacks”).
verb fries · frying · fried
- To cook (something) in hot fat. I am frying the eggs.
- To cook in hot fat. The eggs are frying.
- To simmer; to boil. With crackling flames a caldron fries.
- To suffer because of too much heat. You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.
- To execute, or be executed, by the electric chair. He's guilty of murder: he's going to fry.
- To destroy (something, usually electronic), often with excessive heat, voltage, or current. If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor.
- To make someone laugh a lot, to crack someone up. This joke is absolutely frying me.
noun fries
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A long, thin fried piece of cut potato.
Similar: chip, French fry
- A long, thin fried piece of other foods. halloumi fries
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A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
Similar: fry-up
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The liver of a lamb.
Similar: liver
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A lamb or calf testicle.
Similar: prairie oyster, Rocky Mountain oyster, tendergroin
- A state of excitement. to be in a fry
fry²
- /fɹaɪ/
Rhymes with -aɪ
Where it comes from
From Middle English frie (“spawn of fish, young or small fish, offspring, progeny, children”), probably from Old Norse frjó (“seed, semen”), from Proto-Germanic *fraiwą (“seed, semen, offspring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per-, *(s)prey- (“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”). Likely merging with Old French froiz, froie (“spawn, spawning”), from froier, freier (“to spawn”), from Latin fricō (“to rub”). Compare friable.
noun
- Young fish; fishlings. 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.
- Offspring; progeny; children; brood. Keen was the frost and crisp the snow over our world; and we young fry of the King households were all agog to enjoy life—for was it not Saturday, and were we not left all alone to keep house?
- A swarm, especially of something small. a fry of children
- The spawn of frogs.
fry³
- /fɹaɪ/
Rhymes with -aɪ
Where it comes from
Dialectal, of obscure origin. Perhaps related to or a corruption of frith (“a wood, forest", also "brushwood, wattle”), from Middle English fryth, frith (“forest, woodland, a fence of brush or wattle, hedge”).
noun fries
- A kind of sieve.
- A drain, usually made of brushwood.
verb fries · frying · fried
- To make a brushwood drain.
Fry⁴
- /fɹaɪ/
Rhymes with -aɪ
proper noun
- A surname.
FRY⁵
proper noun
- Initialism of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia With a few strokes, the international creditors helped dismember the FRY and put a fiscal headlock on the newly “independent” republics.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: kid, tyke, shaver, tike, nipper, small fry, nestling, electrocute, youngster, tiddler, child, minor, broiler, roast, saute, bake
Translations
Every language
verb to cook (something) in hot fat or oil
| Español | freír |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 튀기다 twigida |
| 日本語 | (油で)揚げる ageru, 炒る iru, 煎る iru |
| 中文 | 煎 jiān, 炒 chǎo |
| हिन्दी | तलना talnā |
| Kiswahili | kaanga |
| Português | fritar |
| Français | faire frire |
| Deutsch | braten |
| Italiano | friggere |
| Ελληνικά | τηγανίζω tiganízo |
| Română | frige, prăji |
| Русский | жа́рить žáritʹ, поджа́рить podžáritʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | chiên, rán |
| العربية | قَلَى qalā |
| עברית | טיגן \ טִגֵּן tigén |
verb (intransitive) cook in hot fat or oil
| Español | freírse |
|---|---|
| Português | fritar |
| Français | frire |
| Deutsch | braten |
| Italiano | friggere |
| Ελληνικά | τηγανίζω tiganízo |
| Română | prăji |
| עברית | טוגן \ טֻגָּן tugán, היטגן \ הִטַּגֵּן hitagén |
verb suffer because of too much heat
| Español | asarse |
|---|---|
| Português | assar |
| Français | griller |
| Deutsch | kochen |
| Italiano | friggere |
| Ελληνικά | ψήνομαι psínomai |
| Română | prăji |
noun fried potato
| Español | papas fritas, patatas fritas |
|---|---|
| Português | frita |
| Français | frite |
| Italiano | patata fritta, patatine fritte |
| Ελληνικά | τηγανητή πατάτα tiganití patáta |
| Română | cartofi prăjiți, cartofi pai |
noun meal of fried sausages, bacon, etc
| Italiano | fritto misto |
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