fricassee
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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fricassees,
present (3rd person singular)
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fricasseed,
past participle, past
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fricasseeing
present participle
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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fricasseesimple
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fricasseessimple
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have fricasseedperfect
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has fricasseedperfect
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am fricasseeingprogressive
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are fricasseeingprogressive
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is fricasseeingprogressive
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have been fricasseeingperfect progressive
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has been fricasseeingperfect progressive
Past
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fricasseedsimple
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had fricasseedperfect
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was fricasseeingprogressive
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were fricasseeingprogressive
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had been fricasseeingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of fricassee
1560–70; < Middle French, noun use of feminine past participle of fricasser to cook chopped food in its own juice, probably equivalent to fri ( re ) to fry 1 + casser to break, crack (< Latin quassāre to shake, damage, batter); compare, however, dial. fricâssié, perhaps with a reflex of Vulgar Latin *coāctiāre, verbal derivative of Latin coāctus compressed, condensed, past participle of cōgere; see cogent
Vocabulary lists containing fricassee
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Child’s landmark 1961 cookbook contained 524 recipes, for aspics and sweetbreads, poached eggs and mushrooms, chicken fricassee and calf’s brains in wine.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2022
Jeff recalled the creamy chicken fricassee his grandma made when he was growing up in Nebraska.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2019
“Baked chicken is good, but come on, a little boudin or gumbo, fricassee, jambalaya - that helps a little bit to the soul,” Coco Orgeron said.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2018
It is hard to interpret the flash of a knife as the portent of a really well-made brunoise onscreen; the combination of rabbit and stockpot does not equal fricassee.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2018
Of most entrees, whether spaghetti and meatballs or chili or chicken fricassee, they were allowed larger portions than most people could eat.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Julia Grossman, Mr. Moore’s partner in this venture, is the baker turning out croissants, brioches and such for breakfast and beyond, paired with Mr. Moore’s homey pâtés, terrines, mushroom fricassees and Parisian sandwich fillings.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2018
At a subsequent meeting of lawyers on the Sandpiper case, Chuck fricassees Jimmy when he asks how, exactly, he signed up so many people, so quickly, from one assisted living facility in Texas.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016
Legend has it that in the cook-shops the cat is often used in the making of rabbit fricassees.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2011
He made French dishes and Spanish dishes, stews, fricassees, and omelettes, to perfection; nor was there any man in England more hospitable than he when his purse was full, or his credit was good.
From The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray
At least do not let it be said we can pass a Christmas without it, merely to make way for turkeys, fricassees, and ragouts!
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 by Various
Instead, he’s fricasseed nearly every time he ventures outside.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 31, 2016
Maybe it’s not as appalling as corporate behavior that is regularly fricasseed in this space.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2010
Throughout the week, the McClellan Committee fricasseed Frank Brewster in the gravy of the Western Teamsters' finances.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through every comic humiliation that befell him -- whether getting vamped by a transvestite rabbit or fricasseed by an irate hunter -- he displayed the bravura resilience of a born loser.
From Time Magazine Archive
The look she gave me would have fricasseed a rhino.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
The methods of cookery that may be applied to meat include broiling, pan broiling, roasting, stewing or simmering, braizing, frying, sautéing, and fricasseeing.
From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
Stewing or fricasseeing is really cooking slowly in a sauce after the meat has first been browned in a little hot fat.
From The Kitchen Encyclopedia Twelfth Edition (Swift & Company) by Anonymous
In fricasseeing, the meat to be cooked is cut into pieces and sautéd either before or after stewing; then it is served with a white or a brown sauce.
From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
Singe and draw the chicken and then cut as for fricasseeing.
From Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions by Mary A. Wilson
From these general rules we pass to the specific methods of cooking meat, which are nine in number—broiling, roasting, baking, frying, sauteing, steaming, boiling, stewing, or fricasseeing.
From The Kitchen Encyclopedia Twelfth Edition (Swift & Company) by Anonymous
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