fried

See also: Fried

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɹaɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

Verb

fried

1. simple past and past participle of fry

Adjective

fried (comparative more fried, superlative most fried)

1. Cooked by frying.
2. (specifically, of an egg) Fried with the yolk unbroken.

   He always ate his eggs fried, never scrambled.

3. Cooked in a deep fryer or pressure fryer or the like after being coated (breaded) in batter; compare deep-fried.

   a bucket of fried chicken

   • 2009, Parameswarakuma Mallikarjunan, Michael O. Ngadi, Manjeet S. Chinnan, Breaded Fried Foods, CRC Press, →ISBN, pages 51, section 3.6.1:

     Innawong et al. (2006) conducted experiments to study the effect of using nitrogen gas on the quality of fried chicken nuggets during pressure frying in terms of moisture retention and reduction in fat […]

   • 2012, Harry W. Lawson, Standards for Fats & Oils, Springer (→ISBN), page 98:

     The level of seasoning is lower when the chicken is to be open kettle fried; this is because the open kettle-fried chicken has a thicker coating of breading than chicken to be pressure fried. […] Gently shake the fry baskets several times to prevent the sticking of chicken pieces to each other, which can cause raw breading spots on the fried chicken.

4. (colloquial, of electronic equipment) Broken as a result of excessive heat or an electrical surge.
   • 2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: The Heretic:

     Optics - totally fried. And let's not even talk about the power supply. You know how expensive this gear is, son?.

   It looks like your motherboard is fried.

5. (slang)
   1. Stoned; under the influence of drugs.

      Man, I got totally fried on weed at Chad's party.

   2. Drunk; under the influence of alcohol.
      • 1955, Noël Coward, What's Going to Happen to the Tots?:

        The police had to send a squad car / When Daddy got fried on vodka

   3. Extremely tired due to exertion or stress; exhausted.

      After nearly twelve hours at the office plus a nightmare commute home, I was fried and couldn’t think of anything but sleep.

Derived terms

• American fried potatoes
• chicken-fried
• chicken-fried steak
• combination fried rice
• cottage fried potatoes
• country-fried
• country-fried steak
• deep-fat-fried
• deep-fried
• deep fried
• French-fried
• French-fried potato
• french fried potato
• french-fried potato
• French fried potato
• french fried potatoes
• french-fried potatoes
• French fried potatoes
• French-fried potatoes
• fried bread
• fried chicken
• fried chicken mushroom
• fried dough
• fried egg
• fried-egg plant
• fried pie
• fried rice
• fried rice syndrome
• fried slice
• German fried potatoes
• shallow-fried
• Southern fried
• Southern-fried
• special fried rice
• stir-fried
• stir-fried ice cream
• Yangzhou fried rice

 

Translations

cooked by frying

• Arabic: مَقْلِيّ (maqliyy)

  Egyptian Arabic: مقلي (maqliyy)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَقْلي (magli)

• Burmese: ကြော် (my) (krau)
• Catalan: fregit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 油あぶら煎せんじ (yóujiān), 煎せんじ (zh) (jiān)

• Czech: smažený (cs)
• Finnish: paistettu (fi)
• French: frit (fr)
• German: gebraten (de), frittiert (de)
• Greek: τηγανητός (el) (tiganitós)
• Hebrew: מְטֻגָּן (metugán)
• Hungarian: sült (hu)
• Italian: fritto (it)
• Japanese: 油あぶらで揚あげた (ja) (あぶらであげた, abura de ageta), フライの (ja) (furai no)
• Latin: frictus
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• Miyako: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: шарсан (mn) (šarsan)
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} са̄ритым (sāritym)
• Okinawan: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: smażony (pl)
• Portuguese: frito (pt)
• Russian: жа́реный (ru) (žárenyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: ròsta
• Sicilian: frittu (adjective), frijutu (past participle)
• Southern Altai: каарган (kaargan)
• Spanish: frito (es)
• Swedish: stekt (sv), friterad (sv)
• Telugu: వేపుడు (te) (vēpuḍu)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkmen: gowrulan
• Ukrainian: сма́жений (smáženyj)
• Uyghur: قورۇمىسى (qorumisi)
• Welsh: wedi'i ffrio

of an egg: cooked by frying without breaking the yolk

• Finnish: paistettu (fi)
• Polish: sadzony (pl)

broken as a result of heat or electricity

• French: grillé (fr)
• Italian: bruciato (it)

Anagrams

• Efird, Fedir, RIFed, fired, redif

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• fräd (chiefly Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Old High German wrēd(e), northwestern form of reid, from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (originally “twisted, bent”, figuratively “hostile, angry”). Cognate with Dutch wreed, English wroth. The attested wrēde could stand for *wreid, but the modern form seems to confirm an irregular early monophthong in this word.

The initial fr- < wr- is regular. Modern dialects usually have r-, but this is a fairly recent development as evidenced by the Middle High German records as well as the fact that fr- remains where there is no Standard German cognate. Compare rieve, but frequentative fribbele, both from the root of Proto-Germanic *wrībaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʀiːt/

Adjective

fried (masculine friede, feminine fried, comparative frieder, superlative et friedste) (chiefly Ripuarian)

1. (of food and drink) tart, sharp to the taste, bitter or sour
2. (of the weather) rough
3. (of persons) tough, robust, resilient
4. (of persons) standoffish, aloof, unkind, callous