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fry

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fry

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for West Frisian.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: frī, IPA^(key): /fɹaɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ

Etymology 1

From Middle English fryen, borrowed from Old French frire, from Latin frīgō (“to roast, fry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-. Cognate with Ancient Greek φρύγω (phrúgō, “I 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”).

Verb

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

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

   2. (intransitive) To cook in hot fat.

   3. (obsolete) To simmer; to boil.
2. To be affected by extreme heat or current.
   1. (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.

   2. (chiefly US, ambitransitive, slang) To execute, or be executed, by the electric chair.

   3. (transitive, informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic), often with excessive heat, voltage, or current.

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• See also Thesaurus:cook

Coordinate terms

• (be executed in the electric chair): swing

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Noun

fry (plural fries)

1. (usually in the plural, fries, chiefly Canada and US, cooking) A fried piece of cut potato.

   Synonyms: chip, french fry

2. (Ireland, British, cooking) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.

   Synonym: fry-up

3. (Australia, New Zealand, cooking) The liver of a lamb.

   Synonym: liver

4. (usually in the plural, fries, US, cooking) A lamb or calf testicle.

   Synonyms: prairie oyster, Rocky Mountain oyster, tendergroin

5. (colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.

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Etymology 2

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”). The Middle English is attested earlier than the terms in Old French, and the Anglo-Norman forms frie, fry are borrowings from the Middle English. Compare friable.

Noun

fry (uncountable)

2. Young fish; fishlings.
3. (now chiefly UK dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
4. (archaic) A swarm, especially of something small.

   a fry of children

5. (UK dialectal) The spawn of frogs.

Derived terms

• fryling
• small fry

Translations

Etymology 3

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”).

Noun

fry (plural fries)

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

Verb

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

1. (transitive, dialectal) To make a brushwood drain.

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Middle English

Noun

fry

1. alternative form of frie