fry

verbnounnounnounverbcommon in dialogue

//fɹaɪ//

A method of cooking food. To cook (something) in hot fat.

verb

1
A method of cooking food. To cook (something) in hot fat.
I am frying the eggs.
2
A method of cooking food. To cook in hot fat.
The eggs are frying.
3
obsoleteA method of cooking food. To simmer; to boil.
With crackling flames a caldron fries.
Ye might haue seene the frothy billowes fry
4
To affect or be affected by extreme heat or current. To suffer because of too much heat.
You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.
5
slangTo affect or be affected by extreme heat or current. To execute, or be executed, by the electric chair.
He's guilty of murder: he's going to fry.
6
informalTo affect or be affected by extreme heat or current. To destroy (something, usually electronic), often with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor.
Taking drugs for years fried his brain.
7
slangTo entertain (a person) greatly; to make to laugh thoroughly.
This joke is absolutely frying me.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵ-der.? Latin frīgō Old French frirebor. Middle English fryen English fry 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”).

noun

1
A long, thin fried piece of cut potato.
2
A long, thin fried piece of other foods.
halloumi fries
3
A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
4
The liver of a lamb.
5
A lamb or calf testicle.
6
archaicA state of excitement.
to be in a fry

noun

1
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.
2
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?
3
archaicA swarm, especially of something small.
a fry of children
4
The spawn of frogs.

Etymology

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

1
A kind of sieve.
2
A drain, usually made of brushwood.

Etymology

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”).

verb

1
To make a brushwood drain.

Forms

plural: fries
past tense: fried
past participle: fried
present participle: frying
third person singular: fries

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fry · A method of cooking food. To cook (something) in hot fat.

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