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verb

Fry v. t. (past & past part. fried; pres. part. frying) 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 v. i.

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.

To simmer; to boil. (Obs.) "With crackling flames a caldron fries." "The frothy billows fry."

To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat. "To keep the oil from frying in the stomach."

To be agitated; to be greatly moved. (Obs.) "What kindling motions in their breasts do fry."

noun

Frying n. The process denoted by the verb fry.

Frying pan, an iron pan with a long handle, used for frying meat, vegetables, etc.

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Etymology of 'Frying'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Frying" Quotes from Famous Books

... sauteing potatoes and frying them?" asks a young housekeeper from South Dakota in the Day's Work, and as the subject is of much importance and deserving of more space than may be given to it in the correspondence ...

— Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 - A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest • Various

... and peered I through the dim light at the Indian girl, who had lighted the fire and was frying great chunks of moose meat, alternated with thin ...

— The God of His Fathers • Jack London

... fellow's nose being all broken, etc. Then they asked me when I had a fight. I told them while we were waiting for supper. They thought it was pretty quick work to raise a fuss and whip a good cook while another cook was frying some fish. ...

— Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi • George H. Devol

... who desired to make the same journey, and who was willing to encounter the risks of the river rather than pay the heavy expenses of the trip by land. They accordingly proceeded to dig a canoe out of a caoutchouc tree, furnished themselves with paddles, a frying-pan, blankets, some crackers, sugar, salt, tea, and powder, and embarked. The river was shallow, and full of windings and sandbanks, sunken caoutchouc trees had planted the stream with frequent snags, and often heavy masses of fallen timber, ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 • Various

... of all she tied up the jackal which had cursed Anuwa; then she went inside and put an iron pan on the fire and from time to time she sprinkled water on it and when the jackals heard the water hissing they thought that it was the cakes frying and jumped about with joy. Suddenly Anuwa came out with a thick stick and set to beating the jackals till they bit through the ropes and ran away howling; but the first jackal was tied so tightly that he could not escape, and Anuwa ...

— Folklore of the Santal Parganas • Cecil Henry Bompas

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