fried

[ frahyd ]
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adjective
  1. cooked in a pan or on a griddle over direct heat, usually in fat or oil.

  2. Slang.

verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of fry1.

Origin of fried

1
First recorded in 1350–1400, for the adjective

Other words from fried

  • re·fried, adjective
  • un·fried, adjective

Words Nearby fried

Other definitions for Fried (2 of 2)

Fried
[ freed; German freet ]

noun
  1. Al·fred Her·mann [al-frid hur-muhn; German ahl-freyt her-mahn], /ˈæl frɪd ˈhɜr mən; German ˈɑl freɪt ˈhɛr mɑn/, 1864–1921, Austrian writer and journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1911.

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How to use fried in a sentence

  • "I guess you've handled a frying pan before, all right," he remarked at last, when the bacon was fried without burning.

    Cabin Fever | B. M. Bower
  • Common soldiers bought fruit and paper bags of fried potatoes from the booths.

    The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Cash then took down the little square baking pan, greased from the last baking of bread, and in that he fried his hot cakes.

    Cabin Fever | B. M. Bower
  • I catched a good big catfish, too, and Jim cleaned him with his knife, and fried him.

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • It was not, however, pere Kontzen's terrace nor his appetizing fried dishes that drew them on.

    The Nabob | Alphonse Daudet

British Dictionary definitions for fried

fried

/ (fraɪd) /


verb
  1. the past tense and past participle of fry 1

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