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Etymology

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Clipping of West Frisian Frysk.

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fry

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

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Pronunciation

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  • enPR: frī, IPA(key): /fɹaɪ/
    • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪ

Etymology 1

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Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵ-der.?
Latin frīgō
Old French frirebor.
Middle English fryen
English fry

    Inherited from Middle English fryen, borrowed from Old French frire, from Latin frīgō. Cognate with Ancient Greek φρύγω (phrúgō, “to roast, bake”), Sanskrit भृज्जति (bhṛjjati, “to roast, grill, fry”). Replaced native Middle English hirsten, from Old English hierstan (“to fry”). Related to bhurji, bhujia (“fried Indian snacks”).

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    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. A method of cooking food.
      1. (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
        I am frying the eggs.
      2. (intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
        The eggs are frying.
      3. (obsolete) To simmer; to boil.[1]
    2. To affect or be affected by extreme heat or current.
      1. (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
        You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.
      2. (chiefly US, ambitransitive, slang) To execute, or be executed, by the electric chair.
        He's guilty of murder: he's going to fry.
        • 1995 October 18, Morgan Gendal, Barry M. Schkolmick, Michael S. Chernuchin, “Savages” (02:16 from the start), in Law & Order, season 6, episode 3, spoken by Detective Lennie Briscoe and Detective Rey Curtis (Jerry Orbach and Benjamin Bratt):
          C: Bad time to kill a cop. / B: There's a good time? / C: No. Only now the State gets to fry his ass.
      3. (transitive, informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic), often with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
        If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor.
        Taking drugs for years fried his brain.
    3. (transitive, slang) To make someone laugh a lot, to crack someone up.
      Synonyms: slay, kill
      This joke is absolutely frying me.
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    • (be executed in the electric chair): swing
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    fry (plural fries)

    1. (usually in the plural, fries, chiefly Canada and US, cooking) A long, thin fried piece of cut potato.
      Synonyms: chip, French fry
    2. (by extension, usually in the plural) A long, thin fried piece of other foods.
      halloumi fries
    3. (Ireland, UK, cooking) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
      Synonym: fry-up
    4. (Australia, New Zealand, cooking) The liver of a lamb.
      Synonym: liver
    5. (usually in the plural, fries, US, cooking) A lamb or calf testicle.
      Synonyms: prairie oyster, Rocky Mountain oyster, tendergroin
    6. (colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
      to be in a fry
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    British English tends to use chips for the thick, chunky variety (e.g. those sold frozen, served in many public houses, or as part of fish and chips) and fries for the thin, narrow variety (as sold in American-style burger restaurants).

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    Etymology 2

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      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.

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      fry (uncountable)

      2. Young fish; fishlings.
      3. (now chiefly UK dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
        • 1913, Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Golden Road‎[1], L.C. Page & Co.:
          Keen was the frost and crisp the snow over our world; and we young fry of the King households were all agog to enjoy life—for was it not Saturday, and were we not left all alone to keep house?
      4. (archaic) A swarm, especially of something small.
        a fry of children
      5. (UK dialectal) The spawn of frogs.
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      Etymology 3

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      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”).

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      fry (plural fries)

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

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

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

      References

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      1. ^ “fry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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      Noun

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      fry

      1. alternative form of frie
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