fry — English Dictionary

Verb

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

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   I am frying the eggs.

2. A method of cooking food. To cook in hot fat.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

   Examples

   The eggs are frying.

3. A method of cooking food. To simmer; to boil.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Examples

   With crackling flames a caldron fries.

   Ye might haue seene the frothy billowes fry

4. To affect or be affected by extreme heat or current. To suffer because of too much heat.

   Usage

   • Colloquial
   • Intransitive

   Examples

   You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.

5. To affect or be affected by extreme heat or current. To execute, or be executed, by the electric chair.

   Usage

   • US usage
   • Transitive or intransitive
   • Slang

   Examples

   He's guilty of murder: he's going to fry.

6. To affect or be affected by extreme heat or current. To destroy (something, usually electronic), often with excessive heat, voltage, or current.

   Usage

   • Informal
   • Transitive

   Examples

   If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor.

   Taking drugs for years fried his brain.

7. To entertain (a person) greatly; to make to laugh thoroughly.

   Usage

   • Slang
   • Transitive

   Examples

   This joke is absolutely frying me.

Noun

1. A long, thin fried piece of cut potato.

   Usage

   • Canada
   • US usage
   • plural-normally

   Synonyms

   chipFrench fry

2. A long, thin fried piece of other foods.

   Usage

   • broadly
   • plural-normally

   Examples

   halloumi fries

3. A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.

   Usage

   • Ireland
   • UK usage

   Synonyms

   fry-up

4. The liver of a lamb.

   Usage

   • Australia
   • New-Zealand

   Synonyms

   liver

5. A lamb or calf testicle.

   Usage

   • US usage
   • plural-normally

   Synonyms

   prairie oysterRocky Mountain oystertendergroin

6. A state of excitement.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Colloquial

   Examples

   to be in a fry

Noun

1. Young fish; fishlings.

   Usage

   • Uncountable

   Examples

   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.

2. Offspring; progeny; children; brood.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • dialectal
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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?

3. A swarm, especially of something small.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   a fry of children

4. The spawn of frogs.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • dialectal
   • Uncountable

Noun

1. A kind of sieve.

2. A drain, usually made of brushwood.

Verb

1. To make a brushwood drain.

   Usage

   • dialectal
   • Transitive

Noun

1. a young person of either sex

   Synonyms

   childkidyoungsterminorshavernippersmall frytiddlertiketykenestling

   Broader terms

   juvenilejuvenile person

   Examples

   she writes books for children

   they're just kids

   More examples (1)

   ‘tiddler’ is a British term for youngster

Verb

1. be excessively hot

   Broader terms

   heathot upheat up

   Examples

   If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried

2. cook in hot fat or oil

   Broader terms

   cook

   Examples

   fry the pancakes

3. kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair

   Synonyms

   electrocute

   Broader terms

   kill

   Examples

   The serial killer was electrocuted