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fry

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/fɹaɪ/

Definition of fry

22 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)A method of cooking food.
    “I am frying the eggs.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)A method of cooking food.
    “I am frying the eggs.”
  2. (intransitive)A method of cooking food.
    “The eggs are frying.”
  3. (obsolete)A method of cooking food.
    “With crackling flames a caldron fries.”
    “Ye might haue seene the frothy billowes fry”
  4. (colloquial, intransitive)To affect or be affected by extreme heat or current.
    “You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.”
  5. (US, ambitransitive, slang)To affect or be affected by extreme heat or current.
    “He's guilty of murder: he's going to fry.”
  6. (informal, transitive)To affect or be affected by extreme heat or current.
    “If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor.”
    “Taking drugs for years fried his brain.”
  7. (slang, transitive)To entertain (a person) greatly; to make to laugh thoroughly.
    “This joke is absolutely frying me.”
  8. (dialectal, transitive)To make a brushwood drain.

noun

  1. (Canada, US, plural-normally)A long, thin fried piece of cut potato.
  2. (broadly, plural-normally)A long, thin fried piece of other foods.
    “halloumi fries”
  3. (British, Ireland)A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
  4. (Australia, New-Zealand)The liver of a lamb.
  5. (US, plural-normally)A lamb or calf testicle.
  6. (archaic, colloquial)A state of excitement.
    “to be in a fry”
  7. (uncountable)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.”
  8. (UK, dialectal, uncountable)Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
  9. (archaic, uncountable)A swarm, especially of something small.
    “a fry of children”
  10. (UK, dialectal, uncountable)The spawn of frogs.
  11. A kind of sieve.
  12. A drain, usually made of brushwood.

name

  1. A surname.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism)Initialism of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
    “With a few strokes, the international creditors helped dismember the FRY and put a fiscal headlock on the newly “independent” republics.”

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Etymology

From Middle English fryen, borrowed from Old French frire, from Latin frīgō (“to roast, fry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵ- (“to roast, fry”). Cognate with Ancient Greek φρύγω (phrúgō, “to roast, bake”), Sanskrit भृज्जति (bhṛjjati, “to roast, grill, fry”), भृग् (bhṛg, “the crackling of fire”). Replaced native Middle English hirsten, from Old English hierstan (“to fry”).

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