fry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun English painter and art critic (1866-1934)
    Roger Fry; Roger Eliot Fry.
  2. noun English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)
    Christopher Fry.
  3. noun a young person of either sex
    tiddler; nipper; tyke; small fry; nestling; youngster; child; shaver; tike; minor; kid.
    • she writes books for children
    • they're just kids
    • `tiddler' is a British term for youngster
  4. verb be excessively hot
    • If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried
  5. verb cook on a hot surface using fat
    • fry the pancakes
  6. verb kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair
    electrocute.
    • The serial killer was electrocuted

WordNet

Fry transitive verb
Etymology
OE. frien, F. frire, fr. L. frigere to roast, parch, fry, cf. Gr. , Skr. bhrajj. Cf. Fritter.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Fried ; present participle & verbal noun Frying
Definitions
  1. 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 intransitive verb
Definitions
  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 noun
Etymology
OE. fri, fry, seed, descendants, cf. OF. froye spawning, spawn of. fishes, little fishes, fr. L. fricare tosub (see Friction), but cf. also Icel. fræ, frjo, seed, Sw. & Dan. frö, Goth. fraiw seed, descendants.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) 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.

Webster 1913