Definition of "fry" in English

verb

1. A method of cooking food.

2. To affect or be affected by extreme heat or current.

noun

1. (usually in the plural, fries, chiefly Canada and US, cooking) A fried piece of cut potato.

2. (Ireland, British, cooking) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.

3. (Australia, New Zealand, cooking) The liver of a lamb.

4. (usually in the plural, fries, US, cooking) A lamb or calf testicle.

5. (colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.

   • to be in a fry

noun

1. Young fish; fishlings.

2. (now chiefly UK dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.

3. (archaic) A swarm, especially of something small.

   • a fry of children

4. (UK dialectal) The spawn of frogs.

noun

1. A kind of sieve.

2. A drain, usually made of brushwood.

verb

1. (transitive, dialectal) To make a brushwood drain.