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fry

verb

  1. to cook in hot fat
  2. burn to a crisp, render unusable
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noun

  1. deep-fried strips of potato
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /fɹaɪ/

name

  1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: 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”).

  1. A kind of sieve.
  2. A drain, usually made of brushwood.

verb

Etymology: 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”).

  1. To make a brushwood drain.