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Webster 1913 Edition


Fry

Fry

(frī)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Fried
(frīd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Frying
.]
[OE.
frien
, F.
frire
, fr. L. frigere to roast, parch,
fry
, cf. Gr. [GREEK], Skr.
bhrajj
. Cf.
Fritter
.]
To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat;
as, to
fry
fish; to
fry
doughnuts.

Fry

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To undergo the process of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat.
2.
To simmer; to boil.
[Obs.]
With crackling flames a caldron
fries
.
Dryden
The frothy billows
fry
.
Spenser.
3.
To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.
To keep the oil from
frying
in the stomach.
Bacon.
4.
To be agitated; to be greatly moved.
[Obs.]
What kindling motions in their breasts do
fry
.
Fairfax.

Fry

,
Noun.
1.
A dish of anything fried.
2.
A state of excitement;
as, to be in a
fry
.
[Colloq.]

Fry

,
Noun.
[OE.
fri
,
fry
, seed, descendants, cf. OF.
froye
spawning, spawn of. fishes, little fishes, fr. L.
fricare
tosub (see
Friction
), but cf. also Icel.
fræ
,
frjō
, seed, Sw. & Dan.
frö
, Goth.
fraiw
seed, descendants.]
1.
(Zool.)
The young of any fish.
2.
A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.
The
fry
of children young.
Spenser.
To sever . . . the good fish from the other
fry
.
Milton.
We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small
fry
.
Walpole.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fry

FRY

,
Verb.
T.
[L. frigo. Gr.]
To dress with fat by heating or roasting in a pan over a fire; to cook and prepare for eating in a fryingpan; as, to fry meat or vegetables.

FRY

, v.i.
1.
To be heated and agitated; to suffer the action of fire or extreme heat.
2.
To ferment, as in the stomach.
3.
To be agitated; to boil.

FRY

,
Noun.
1.
A swarm or crowd of little fish; so called from their crowding, tumbling and agitation. [L. ferveo.]
2.
A dish of any thing fried.
3.
A kind of sieve. [Not used in America.]

Definition 2024


Fry

Fry

See also: fry

English

Proper noun

Fry

  1. A surname.

fry

fry

See also: Fry

English

Verb

Eggs, tomatoes and mushrooms being fried in a frying pan

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

  1. (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
  2. (intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
  3. (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
    You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.
  4. (intransitive, informal) To be executed by the electric chair.
    He's guilty of murder he's going to fry.
  5. (transitive, informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
    If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor.
Synonyms
  • See also Wikisaurus:cook
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

fry (plural fries)

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

Synonyms
  • (fried potato): chip (Australia, New Zealand, UK), fried potato
  • (meal of fried sausages, bacon, etc): fry-up
Translations

Etymology 2

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 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍅 (fraiw, seed).

Noun

fry (plural fries)

  1. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
  2. Young fish; fishlings.
    • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
      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.
  3. (archaic) A swarm, especially of something small (a fry of children).
  4. (Britain dialectal) The spawn of frogs.
Translations
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Dialectal, of obscure origin.

Noun

fry (plural fries)

  1. A kind of sieve.
  2. A drain.