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fry (iou)



fry verb. . ME.
[Old & mod. French frire from Latin frigere, cogn. with Greek phrugein, Sanskrit bhjjati grill.]
verb trans. & intrans. Cook or undergo cooking in hot fat, usu. in a shallow pan. ME.
deep-fried, deep-frying: see DEEP adverb. fry in one's own grease be burnt alive; be tormented by one's own passions; suffer the consequences of one's own folly. fry up heat or reheat in a frying-pan. have other fish to fry: see FISH noun1.
V. S. Pritchett He..cracked eggs, got breadcrumbs and soon fried one of his wonderful fish suppers.
verb trans. & intrans. transf. & fig. Burn or overheat, esp. with effects analogous to those of frying food; frizzle, scorch (freq. hyperbol., of the sun). Also, torture or be tortured by fire. LME.
Jonson Earth and seas in fire and flame shall fry. Smollett My uncle, frying with vexation.
b. Execute or be executed in the electric chair. US slang. E20.
verb intrans. Boil, seethe, ferment, simmer. L16-L17.
Spenser Ye might have seene the frothy billowes fry Vnder the ship.
Comb.: fry bread N. Amer. a traditional N. American Indian bread cooked by deep-frying; frying-pan a shallow pan in which food is fried (out of the frying-pan into the fire: see PAN noun1); fry-pan = frying-pan above; fry-up a dish of fried food, esp. of cold food heated up in a frying-pan; the preparation of such a dish.