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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I watched him pile the to-go boxes high with big slabs of pork and chicken fricassee.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2020
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
If ever Doña Estefania quitted my side, it was to go to the kitchen and devote all her care to preparing fricassees to please my palate and quicken my appetite.
From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
The dessicated remains of the few ambuscados that took refuge in the grub-box kept turning up in a variety of frys, stews, and fricassees for the next fortnight.
From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
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
The dish: fricasseed muskrat, received gingerly at first by the guests.
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
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
Prepare the chicken for fricasseeing, cook until tender and then lift it.
From Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions by Wilson, Mary A.
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
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 Wilson, Mary A.
Indeed, since it is a long method of cookery, a rather old, comparatively tough fowl lends itself best to 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
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