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Noun: fries  frIz
  1. Strips of potato fried in deep fat
    - french fries, french-fried potatoes, chips
Noun: fry  frI
  1. A young person of either sex
    - child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler [Brit], tike, tyke, nestling, wean [UK, Ireland]
     
  2. A fish that is young
    - young fish
Noun: Fry
  1. English painter and art critic (1866-1934)
    - Roger Fry, Roger Eliot Fry
     
  2. English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)
    - Christopher Fry
Verb: fry  frI
  1. Cook in hot fat or oil
    "fry the pancakes"
     
  2. Be excessively hot
    "If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried"
     
  3. Kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair
    - electrocute

See also: fryer, frying

Type of: art critic, cook, dramatist, fish, heat, heat up, hot up [Brit], Irish potato, juvenile, juvenile person, kill, murphy, offspring, painter, playwright, potato, spud, tater, tatie [UK, dialect], tattie [UK, dialect], white potato, young

Part of: Bloomsbury Group

Encyclopedia: Fry Fry, Seine-Maritime

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