fry

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To cook food in hot oil or fat.

   I am frying some eggs for breakfast.

2. 2
   verb

   To be harmed by extreme heat or an electric current.

   You'll fry in this sun if you don't put on sunscreen.

3. 3
   noun

   Very young fish.

   Thousands of tiny fry swam near the surface of the pond.

Common collocations

• fry fish Verb + noun

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.

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