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- 1 A surname.
- 2 Initialism of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
"With a few strokes, the international creditors helped dismember the FRY and put a fiscal headlock on the newly “independent” republics."
- 1 A fried piece of cut potato. Canada, US, plural-normally
- 2 Young fish; fishlings. uncountable
"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."
- 3 A kind of sieve.
- 4 a young person of either sex wordnet
- 5 A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc. British, Ireland
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- 6 Offspring; progeny; children; brood. UK, dialectal, uncountable
- 7 A drain, usually made of brushwood.
- 8 The liver of a lamb. Australia, New-Zealand
- 9 A swarm, especially of something small. archaic, uncountable
"a fry of children"
- 10 A lamb or calf testicle. US, plural-normally
- 11 The spawn of frogs. UK, dialectal, uncountable
- 12 A state of excitement. archaic, colloquial
"to be in a fry"
- 1 A method of cooking food.; To cook (something) in hot fat. transitive
"I am frying the eggs."
- 2 To make a brushwood drain. dialectal, transitive
- 3 cook in hot fat or oil wordnet
- 4 A method of cooking food.; To cook in hot fat. intransitive
"The eggs are frying."
- 5 kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair wordnet
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- 6 A method of cooking food.; To simmer; to boil. obsolete
"With crackling flames a caldron fries."
- 7 be excessively hot wordnet
- 8 To affect or be affected by extreme heat or current.; To suffer because of too much heat. colloquial, intransitive
"You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on."
- 9 To affect or be affected by extreme heat or current.; To execute, or be executed, by the electric chair. US, ambitransitive, slang
"He's guilty of murder: he's going to fry."
- 10 To affect or be affected by extreme heat or current.; To destroy (something, usually electronic), often with excessive heat, voltage, or current. informal, transitive
"If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor."
- 11 To make laugh thoroughly.
"This joke is absolutely frying me."
Etymology
From Middle English fryen, borrowed from Old French frire, from Latin frīgō (“to roast, fry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-. Cognate with Ancient Greek φρύγω (phrúgō, “I roast, bake”), Sanskrit भृज्जति (bhṛjjati, “to roast, grill, fry”), भृग् (bhṛg, “the crackling of fire”). Replaced native Middle English hirsten, from Old English hierstan (“to fry”).
From Middle English fryen, borrowed from Old French frire, from Latin frīgō (“to roast, fry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-. Cognate with Ancient Greek φρύγω (phrúgō, “I roast, bake”), Sanskrit भृज्जति (bhṛjjati, “to roast, grill, fry”), भृग् (bhṛg, “the crackling of fire”). Replaced native Middle English hirsten, from Old English hierstan (“to fry”).
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.
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”).
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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