fry

To fry food is to cook it in very hot oil until it's crispy. For breakfast, you could fry yourself an egg, and maybe fry some bacon to go with it.

You can stir fry vegetables and deep fry doughnuts — and you have to be careful on a hot summer day not to (figuratively) fry yourself in the sun. When fry is a noun, it's usually short for "French fry," but it also means youngster, or "small fry." This less common meaning comes from Scottish, possibly from the Old Norse root frjo, "offspring."

Primary Meanings of fry

1.	v	cook on a hot surface using fat
2.	n	a young person of either sex

Full Definitions of fry

v cook on a hot surface using fat

“fry the pancakes”

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; frizzle
fry something until it curls and becomes crisp; deep-fat-fry
fry in deep fat; griddle
cook on a griddle; pan-fry
fry in a pan; deep-fry, french-fry
cook by immersing in fat; stir fry
fry very quickly over high heat; saute
fry briefly over high heat

Type of:: cook
transform and make suitable for consumption by heating

v be excessively hot

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

Type of:: heat, heat up, hot up
gain heat or get hot

v kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair

Synonyms:: electrocute

Type of:: kill
cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly

n a young person of either sex

Synonyms:: child, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster

Types:: show 23 types...; hide 23 types...; bairn
a child: son or daughter; buster
a robust child; changeling
a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy; child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child
a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age; foster child, foster-child, fosterling
a child who is raised by foster parents; imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp
one who is playfully mischievous; kiddy
a young child; orphan
a child who has lost both parents; peanut
a young child who is small for his age; poster child
a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes; kindergartener, kindergartner, preschooler
a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten; silly
a word used for misbehaving children; sprog
a child; bambino, toddler, tot, yearling
a young child; urchin
poor and often mischievous city child; street child, waif
a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned; foster daughter, foster-daughter
someone who is raised as a daughter although not related by birth; foster son, foster-son
someone who is raised as a son although not related by birth; poster boy
a male poster child; poster girl
a female poster child; ragamuffin, tatterdemalion
a dirty shabbily clothed urchin; guttersnipe, street urchin
a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas; brat, holy terror, little terror, terror
a very troublesome child

Type of:: juvenile, juvenile person
a young person, not fully developed

Primary Meanings of fry

v cook on a hot surface using fat

v be excessively hot

v kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair

n a young person of either sex

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fry

Primary Meanings of fry

v cook on a hot surface using fat

v be excessively hot

v kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair

n a young person of either sex

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