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fryer¹

Sounds like friar · Rhymes with -aɪə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From fry + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix).

noun fryers · frier

  1. A machine or container for frying food. He learned to work the fryer as part of becoming a competent cook for a commercial kitchen.
  2. A fish suitable for frying.
  3. A young chicken suitable for frying; a pullet or cockerel. […] it also had a yellow beak. Which meant it wasn't a layer anymore and was okay to eat. Nowadays we get yellow-legged fryers.
  4. One who fries. The dolphin was also borne by the family of Fryer, with reference, as Mr. Moule suggests, to the fry or swarm of fishes (or was not their ancestor an excellent fryer of fish?); […]

Fryer²

Where it comes from

From friar.

proper noun Fryers

  1. countable, uncountable A surname originating as an occupation.
  2. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Kentucky, United States.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: frier, pullet, chicken, fryolator, fry cook, deep-fat fryer, frypan, fry-pan, deep frier, deepfrier, fry pan, frying-pan, froster, home fry, fryingpan, fry sauce

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noun A container for frying food

Españolfreidora
Portuguêsfritadeira
Italianofriggitrice
العربيةمِقْلَاة miqlāh, قَلَّاية qallāya

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@misc{fryer_2026,
  title = {fryer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fryer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}