fry

fry¹ (fraɪ)

—vb (when tr, sometimes foll by up) , fries, frying, fried
1.	to cook or be cooked in fat, oil, etc, usually over direct heat
2.	informal (intr) to be excessively hot
3.	slang chiefly (US) to kill or be killed by electrocution, esp in the electric chair

—n , fries, frying, fried, fries
4.	a dish of something fried, esp the offal of a specified animal: pig's fry
5.	(US), (Canadian) a social occasion, often outdoors, at which the chief food is fried
6.	informal (Brit) the act of preparing a mixed fried dish or the dish itself

[C13: from Old French frire, from Latin frīgere to roast, fry]

fry² (fraɪ)

—*pl n*
1.	the young of various species of fish
2.	the young of certain other animals, such as frogs
3.	See also small fry young children

[C14 (in the sense: young, offspring): perhaps via Norman French from Old French freier to spawn, rub, from Latin fricāre to rub]

Fry (fraɪ)

—n
1.	Christopher. 1907--2005, English dramatist; author of the verse dramas A Phoenix Too Frequent (1946), The Lady's Not For Burning (1948), and Venus Observed (1950)
2.	Elizabeth. 1780--1845, English prison reformer and Quaker
3.	Roger Eliot. 1866--1934, English art critic and painter who helped to introduce the postimpressionists to Britain. His books include Vision and Design (1920) and Cézanne (1927)
4.	Stephen (John). born 1957, British writer, actor, and comedian; his novels include The Liar (1991) and The Stars' Tennis Balls (2000)

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

fry

late 13c., from O.Fr. frire, from L. frigere "to roast or fry," from PIE *bhreu- (cf. Skt. bhrjjati "roasts, bharjanah "roasting;" Pers. birishtan "to roast;" Gk. phrygein "to roast, bake"). Meaning "execute in the electric chair" is U.S. slang from 1929. To go out of the frying pan into the fire is

first attested in Thomas More (1532). Related: Fried; frying.

fry

"young fish," 1293, from Anglo-Fr. frei, from O.Fr. frai "spawn," from froier "to rub, spawn (by rubbing abdomen on sand)." First applied to human offspring 14c. in Scot., though OED traces this usage to O.N. frjo, fræ "seed, offspring."

Slang Dictionary

fry definition

in.
to die in the electric chair. (Underworld.) : The DA is determined that you will fry.
tv.
to execute someone in the electric chair. (Underworld.) : They're gonna fry you for this.

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Computing Dictionary

fry definition

1. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware failures. More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never said of software, only of hardware and humans. See fried, magic smoke.
2. To cause to fail; to roach, toast, or hose a piece of hardware. Never used of software or humans, but compare fried.

Matching Quote

"You will eat, bye and bye,
When you've learned how to cook and to fry;
Chop some wood, 'twill do you good,
And you'll eat in the sweet bye and bye."

-Joe Hill

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Slang

been bobbing for fries brain-fried Go fry an egg! Kentucky fried

Kentucky fried perma-fried small fry

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