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fryer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From fry + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix).

Meanings

1. A machine or container for frying food.
   • He learned to work the fryer as part of becoming a competent cook for a commercial kitchen.
2. A fish suitable for frying.
3. A young chicken suitable for frying; a pullet or cockerel.
   • […] it also had a yellow beak. Which meant it wasn't a layer anymore and was okay to eat. Nowadays we get yellow-legged fryers. 1991, Pearl Violette Metzelthin, Ruth Reichl, Gourmet (volume 51, issues 1-6, page 60)
4. One who fries.
   • Of course this may be true, this story of the fryer of fish in the square San Antonio, but the man may have been lying to me—that is, “stringing” me, as we say. 1926, George Wharton Edwards, Spain, Penn Publishing Company, page 325:
   • In the same vein is what happened once concerning a man who was a fryer of fish by trade. 2007, Humphrey Taman Davies, editor, Yūsuf Al-S̲h̲irbīnī’s Kitāb Hazz Al-quḥūf Bi-Sharḥ Qaṣīd Abī Shādūf: English Translation, Introduction and Notes, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 279:
   • Clark is especially pleased when someone mentions his skill in the kitchen. “I am a great hot-cake cooker,” he says, warming up to his subject, “and I am one of the greatest dishwashers in the country. I am also one of the greatest fryers of chicken in the country, and I toss up a dandy fruit salad—grapefruit, oranges, pineapple and bananas, with French dressing. I really fix it up.” 1945 September 29, Jack Alexander, “The President’s New Lawyer”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 218, number 13, page 10, column 1:
   • ‘I might not be the best fryer of fish,’ said Alexis’ voice from beside her, ‘but I am considered a very good hand as a maker of salads.’ 1990, Mons Daveson, Paradise Island, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 55:
   • It seemed that here was a young lady who, while willing to accept three pounds a week for decorating the stage of the Winter Garden for a season or two, very definitely had other fish to fry. She was, as a fryer of fish, to make quite a name for herself. 1954, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, chapter 13, in Bring On the Girls: The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy, with Pictures to Prove it, London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., page 175:
   • Now I'm an excellent fryer of eggs, and the way I do it - do you want to know how I do it? 1943, Radio Broadcasts, page 2:
   • My grandmother McGinness (whom I called “Nana") was an ardent bird-watcher and a dedicated catcher, filleter, and fryer of fish. 1997, “Mary Mackey”, in Contemporary Authors Autobiography, Gale, →ISBN, pages 202–203:
   • Ernest Gilpin, employed in the Summer White House kitchen at Cedar Island Lodge, wrote the Milwaukee Circuit Court that he would be unable to appear to answer charges of desertion and cruelty filed by his wife. He said to do so might cost him his job as a fryer of fish for the President. 1928 July 10, “Coolidge Cook Too Busy to Answer Divorce Suit: Milwaukee Court Accepts Mailed Excuse But Orders Him to Pay Wife $12 a Week”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 80, number 307, St. Louis, Mo., page 1, column 4:
   • The sale is conducted on the principle of what is termed a “Dutch auction,” purchasers not being allowed to inspect the fish in the doubles before they bid. Offal is bought only by the “fryers.” 1858 May 1, George Augustus Sala, “Twice Round the Clock, or The Hours of the Day and Night in London”, in The Welcome Guest: A Magazine of Recreative Reading for All, London: Office […], page 7, column 1:
   • Michelangelo was an excellent fryer of eggs, a real master with a skillet, far better than I was. 2001, AnnieMae Robertson, Murder Sets the Scene, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 50:
   • The dolphin was also borne by the family of Fryer, with reference, as Mr. Moule suggests, to the fry or swarm of fishes (or was not their ancestor an excellent fryer of fish?); […] 1842 June, “Heraldry of Fish. Notices of the principal Families bearing Fish in their Arms. By Thomas Moule. […]”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume XVII, London: William Pickering; John Bowyer Nichols and Son, page 611, column 1:

Forms

Coordinates

stewer · broiler · layer · roaster

Deriveds

air fryer · deep fryer · deep-fat fryer

Translations (11)

pt fritadeira (A container for frying food) · sv stekare (A container for frying food) · acw قَلَّاية (A container for frying food) · ar قَلَّاية (A container for frying food) · bg бройлер (chicken suitable for frying) · fi paistinpannu (A container for frying food) · it friggitrice (A container for frying food) · ar مِقْلَاة (A container for frying food) · fi paistokana (chicken suitable for frying) · es freidora (A container for frying food) · bg тиган (A container for frying food)