fry

Use fry in a sentence

Frying eggs.

verb

Fry is defined as to cook in hot oil.

An example of fry is to put potatoes in hot oil to make french fries.

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fry

transitive verb

intransitive verb

fried, fry′ing

to cook or be cooked in a pan or on a griddle over direct heat, usually in hot fat or oil
to subject or be subjected to the painful or destructive effects of intense heat
Slang to electrocute or be electrocuted

Origin of fry

Middle English frien from Old French frire from Classical Latin frigere, to fry from Indo-European base an unverified form bher-, to bake, roast from source Persian birištan, to fry

noun

pl. fries

1. a fried food
2. [pl.] fried potatoes
a social gathering at which food is fried and eaten: a fish fry

plural noun

sing.

young fish
small adult fish, esp. when in large groups

Origin of fry

Middle English frie, probably a merging of Old Norse frjo, seed, offspring (akin to Gothic fraiw) with Anglo-French frei (Fr frai) from Old French freier, to rub, spawn from Vulgar Latin an unverified form frictiare from Classical Latin fricare, to rub: see friable

Fry

(born Christopher Hammond) 1907-2005; Eng. playwright
1780-1845; Eng. philanthropist & prison reformer

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fry

verb

fried, fry·ing, fries,

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 )

verb

intransitive

To be cooked in a pan over direct heat in hot oil or fat.
Slang To undergo execution in an electric chair.

noun

pl. fries,

A french fry: ordered fries as a side dish.
A dish of a fried food.
A social gathering at which food is fried and eaten: a fish fry.

Origin of fry

Middle English frien from Old French frire from Latin frīgere

noun

pl. fry
a. A recently hatched fish.
b. A young salmon living in fresh water that is older than an alevin and younger than a parr or smolt.
c. A young animal of certain other groups, such as frogs.
pl. fry, or fries An individual, especially a young or insignificant person: “These pampered public school boys … had managed to evade the long prison sentences that lesser fry were serving” ( Noel Annan )

Origin of fry

Middle English fri probably from Anglo-Norman frie from Old French frier, froyer to rub, spawn from Latin fricāre to rub

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present fries, present participle frying, simple past and past participle fried)

To cook (something) in hot fat.
(intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
(intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.
(intransitive, informal) To be executed by the electric chair.
He's guilty of murder — he's going to fry.
(informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor.

Noun

(plural fries)

(usually in plural fries) (mainly Canada and US) A fried potato.
(Ireland, UK) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
(colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
to be in a fry

Origin

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”)

Noun

(plural fries)

(Now chiefly UK dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
Young fish; fishlings.
(archaic) A swarm, especially of something small (a fry of children).
(UK dialectal) The spawn of frogs.

Origin

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”).