fry

verb

/fɹaɪ/

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.

derived from fricō — “to rub”
derived from froiz
derived from *(s)per-✻
derived from *fraiwą✻ — “seed, semen, offspring”
derived from frjó — “seed, semen”
inherited from frie — “spawn of fish, young or small fish, offspring, progeny, children”

Definitions

1
A method of cooking food.
- I am frying the eggs.
2
To affect or be affected by extreme heat or current.
- You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.
3
To entertain (a person) greatly
To entertain (a person) greatly; to make to laugh thoroughly.
- This joke is absolutely frying me.
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1. A long, thin fried piece of cut potato.
2. 5
  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. 9
  A state of excitement.
  - to be in a fry
7. 10
  Young fish
  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. Offspring
  Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
9. 12
  A swarm, especially of something small.
  - a fry of children
10. The spawn of frogs.
11. A kind of sieve.
12. A drain, usually made of brushwood.
13. To make a brushwood drain.
14. A surname.
15. 18
  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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Derived

air-fry, bigger fish to fry, deep-fat-fry, deep-fry, dry-fry, fish to fry, flash-fry, fried, fryable, frybread, fry cook, fryer, frying, frying pan, fry jack, frypan, fry pan, fry pie, fry someone's bacon, fry up, frywood, have other fish to fry, mind-frying, more important fish to fry, overfry, pan-fry, parfry, refry, shallow-fry, unfry, stir-fry, a few fries short of a Happy Meal, calf fries, cottage fries, curly fry, fish fry, french fry, fries, fry sauce, glottal fry · +12 more

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA