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frying-pan

frying-pan is the alternative form of frying pan.

Meaning of frying pan

Noun

frying pan (plural frying pans)

  1. A long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food.
    • And if thy oblation be a meate offering baken in the frying pan,it ſhalbe made of fine flowꝛe with oyle.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 2:7
    Synonyms:
    fry pan, frypan, pan, skillet

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Forms of frying-pan

pluralfrying-pans

Questions about frying-pan

What is frying-pan the alternative form of?
Frying-pan is the alternative form of frying pan.

Words near frying-pan in the dictionary

  1. frying pans
  2. frying someone's bacon
  3. frying steak
  4. frying steaks
  5. frying up
  6. frying-pan
  7. frying-pans
  8. fryingpan
  9. Fryingpan River
  10. fryingpans
  11. fryings

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