Fry definition
A dish of a fried food.
noun
A social gathering at which food is fried and eaten.
A fish fry.
noun
To cook or be cooked in a pan or on a griddle over direct heat, usually in hot fat or oil.
verb
To cook over direct heat in hot oil or fat.
verb
(slang) To destroy (electronic circuitry) with excessive heat or current.
verb
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To be cooked in a pan over direct heat in hot oil or fat.
verb
(slang) To undergo execution in an electric chair.
verb
A french fry.
Ordered fries as a side dish.
noun
Fry is defined as to cook in hot oil.
An example of fry is to put potatoes in hot oil to make french fries.
verb
An individual, especially a young or insignificant person.
noun
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A recently hatched fish.
noun
A young salmon living in fresh water that is older than an alevin and younger than a parr or smolt.
noun
A young animal of certain other groups, such as frogs.
noun
To subject or be subjected to the painful or destructive effects of intense heat.
verb
(slang) To electrocute or be electrocuted.
verb
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A social gathering at which food is fried and eaten.
A fish fry.
noun
A fried food.
noun
Fried potatoes.
noun
Young fish.
pluralNoun
Small adult fish, esp. when in large groups.
pluralNoun
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(person) (born Christopher Hammond) 1907-2005; Eng. playwright.
proper name
(person) 1780-1845; Eng. philanthropist & prison reformer.
proper name
(intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.
verb
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(intransitive, informal) To be executed by the electric chair.
He's guilty of murder — he's going to fry.
verb
(informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor.
verb
(usually in plural fries) (mainly Canada and US) A fried potato.
noun
(Ireland, UK) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
noun
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(archaic) A swarm, especially of something small (a fry of children).
noun
Origin of fry
- Middle English fri probably from Anglo-Norman frie from Old French frier, froyer to rub, spawn from Latin fricāre to rub
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English frien from Old French frire from Latin frīgere
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English fry (“seed, offspring”), 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 frø (“seed”), Gothic [script?] (fraiw, “seed”).
From Wiktionary
- From Middle English frien, from Old French frire, from Latin frīgere (“to roast, fry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-. Cognate with Ancient Greek φρύγω (phrugō, “I roast, bake”), Sanskrit भृज्ज् (bhṛjjati, “to roast, grill, fry”), भृग् (bhṛg, “the crackling of fire”)
From Wiktionary