fry
Fry is defined as to cook in hot oil.
(verb)An example of fry is to put potatoes in hot oil to make french fries.
See fry in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb, intransitive verb fried, frying
- to cook or be cooked in a pan or on a griddle over direct heat, usually in hot fat or oil
- Slang to electrocute or be electrocuted
Origin: ME frien < OFr frire < L frigere, to fry < IE base *bher-, to bake, roast > Pers birištan, to fry
noun pl. fries
- a fried food
- fried potatoes
- ☆ a social gathering, usually outdoors, at which food is fried and eaten: a fish fry
plural noun sing. fry
- young fish
- small adult fish, esp. when in large groups
- young; offspring; children
Origin: ME frie, prob. a merging of ON frjo, seed, offspring (akin to Goth fraiw) with Anglo-Fr frei (Fr frai) < OFr freier, to rub, spawn < VL *frictiare < L fricare, to rub: see friable
- Fry, Christopher (born Christopher Hammond) 1907-2005; Eng. playwright
- Fry, Elizabeth 1780-1845; Eng. philanthropist & prison reformer
See fry in American Heritage Dictionary 4
verb fried fried (frīd), fry·ing, fries fries (frīz) verb, transitive
- To cook over direct heat in hot oil or fat.
- Slang To destroy (electronic circuitry) with excessive heat or current: “a power surge to the computer that fried a number of sensitive electronic components” (Erik Sandberg-Diment).
- To be cooked in a pan over direct heat in hot oil or fat.
- Slang To undergo execution in an electric chair.
- A French fry. Often used in the plural.
- A dish of a fried food.
- A social gathering at which food is fried and eaten: a fish fry.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English frien
Origin: , from Old French frire
Origin: , from Latin frīgere
.plural noun
- a. Small fish, especially young, recently hatched fish.b. The young of certain other animals.
- Individuals, especially young or insignificant persons: “These pampered public school boys . . . had managed to evade the long prison sentences that lesser fry were serving” (Noel Annan).
Origin:
Origin: Middle English fri
Origin: , probably from Anglo-Norman frie
Origin: , from frier, to rub
Origin: , from Latin fricāre
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