Meaning of Fry | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A fried piece of cut potato.
   Canada, US, plural-normally
3. Young fish; fishlings.
   uncountable
4. A kind of sieve.
5. Initialism of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
   abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
6. A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
   British, Ireland
7. Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
   UK, dialectal, uncountable
8. A drain, usually made of brushwood.
9. The liver of a lamb.
   Australia, New-Zealand
10. A swarm, especially of something small.
    archaic, uncountable
11. A lamb or calf testicle.
    US, plural-normally
12. The spawn of frogs.
    UK, dialectal, uncountable
13. A state of excitement.
    archaic, colloquial

Equivalents

Examples

“to be in a fry”

“it is not possible for man to sever the wheat from the tares, the good fish from the other frie; that must be the Angels Ministery at the end of mortall things.”

“a fry of children”

“With a few strokes, the international creditors helped dismember the FRY and put a fiscal headlock on the newly “independent” republics.”

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