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Fry

Fry Meaning & Definition
Fry Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fry?

[n] a young person of either sex (between birth and puberty); "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters"
[n] English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)
[n] English painter and art critic (1866-1934)
[v] cook on a hot surface using fat; "fry the pancakes"
[v] kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair; "The serial killer was electrocuted"
[v] be excessively hot; "If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fry: child | Christopher Fry | electrocute | kid | minor | nestling | nipper | Roger Eliot Fry | Roger Fry | shaver | small fry | tiddler | tike | tyke | youngster

Related Terms | Find terms related to Fry: alevin | bake | barbecue | baste | be in heat | benthon | benthos | blanch | blaze | bloom | boil | braise | brew | broil | brood | brown | burn | casserole | cetacean | choke | clutch | coddle | combust | cook | course | cover | culinary masterpiece | culinary preparation | curry | devil | dish | do | do to perfection | dolphin | entree | farrow | fingerling | fire | fish | flame | flame up | flare | flare up | flicker | flush | fricassee | frizz | frizzle | game fish | gasp | get | glow | griddle | grill | grilse | hatch | heat | incandesce | kipper | litter | Loch Ness monster | main dish | man-eater | man-eating shark | marine animal | minnow | minny | nekton | nest | oven-bake | pan | pan-broil | panfish | pant | parboil | parch | plankton | poach | porpoise | prepare | prepare food | radiate heat | roast | salmon | saute | scald | scallop | scorch | sea monster | sea pig | sea serpent | sea snake | sear | seethe | shark | shimmer with heat | shirr | side dish | simmer | smolder | smolt | smother | spark | spat | spawn | sponge | steam | stew | stifle | stir-fry | suffocate | sweat | swelter | toast | tropical fish | whale | young

See Also | art critic | bairn | bambino | Bloomsbury Group | buster | changeling | child's body | cook | deep-fat-fry | deep-fry | dramatist | foster-child | french-fry | frizzle | griddle | heat | heat up | hot up | imp | juvenile | juvenile person | kiddy | kill | monkey | orphan | painter | pan-fry | picaninny | piccaninny | pickaninny | playwright | preschooler | pupil | rapscallion | rascal | saute | scalawag | scallywag | scamp | schoolchild | silly | sprog | stir fry | toddler | tot | urchin | waif | yearling

Fry In Webster's Dictionary

\Fry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frying}.] [OE. frien, F. frire, fr. L. frigere to roast, parch, fry, cf. Gr. ?, 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\, v. 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\, n. [OE. fri, fry, seed, descendants, cf. OF. froye spawning, spawn of. fishes, little fishes, fr. L. fricare tosub (see {Friction}), but cf. also Icel. fr[ae], frj[=o], seed, Sw. & Dan. fr["o], Goth. fraiw seed, descendants.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) 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.

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