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fryer

fryer noun: a machine or container for frying food.

fryer: a machine or container for frying food
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Noun

fryer (plural fryers)

  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.
    • 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...
    • 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...

Proper noun capitalized: Fryer

Fryer (countable and uncountable, plural Fryers)

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.
  2. An unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Kentucky, United States.

fryer meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

fryer in Hindi

फ्रायर

fryer in Tamil

இளம் இறைச்சிக் கோழி

fryer in Marathi

फ्रायर

fryer in Urdu

فرائر
More languagesFewer languages
fryer in Bengali
ফ্রায়ার, ফ্রাইয়ার
fryer in Telugu
ఫ్రైయర్, ఫ్రైర్
fryer in Malayalam
ഫ്രയർ, ഫ്രൈയർ
fryer in Kannada
ಫ್ರೈಯರ್, ಫ್ರೈರ್
fryer in Punjabi
ਫ਼ਰਾਈਰ, ਫ਼ਰਾਈਅਰ, ਫ੍ਰਾਇਰ
fryer in Gujarati
ફ્રાયર, ફ્રાઈર
fryer in Odia
ଫ୍ରାଯ଼ର୍, ଫ୍ରାଇର୍, ଫ୍ରାଯ଼ାର
fryer in Nepali
फ्रायर, फ्राइयर, फ्राइर
fryer in Arabic
مِقْلَاة miqlāh, قَلَّاية qallāya

Examples of fryer in a sentence

  • 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:
  • 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”...
  • 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:
  • 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.1945 September 29, Jack Alexander, “The President’s New Lawyer”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 218, number 13, page 10, column 1:

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Forms of fryer

Noun
pluralfryers
alternative formfrier
Proper noun
pluralFryers

Plural of fryer: fryers

Origin of fryer

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

From friar.

Words formed from fryer

Words that rhyme with fryer

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Questions about fryer

What does fryer mean?
Fryer means a machine or container for frying food.
What is fryer in Hindi?
Fryer in Hindi is फ्रायर. See Fryer meaning in Hindi.
How do you use fryer in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is fryer?
Fryer can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of fryer?
The plural of fryer is fryers.

Words near fryer in the dictionary

  1. frybread
  2. frybreads
  3. Frydaies
  4. Frye
  5. Fryeburg
  6. fryer
  7. Fryerning
  8. fryers
  9. Fryerstown
  10. frying
  11. frying ladle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fryer (page history and authors); Fryer (page history and authors); fryer (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fryer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fryer (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fryer (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fryer (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fryer (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fryer (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fryer (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fryer (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fryer (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fryer (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fryer (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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