Fryer Meaning
/frˈaɪər/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA machine or container for frying food.
nounA fish suitable for frying.
Sentence Examples
He put the croquette in the deep fryer.
Clearly you don't own an air fryer.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The cook dropped the fish into the hot ____ to fry it.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The restaurant's kitchen is equipped with a large deep-fat ____ for preparing crispy snacks.
Word Origin & History
From fry + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"“The Boasts have got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.”"
— 1941, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie:
"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:
"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:
"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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The cook dropped the fish into the hot ____ to fry it.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The restaurant's kitchen is equipped with a large deep-fat ____ for preparing crispy snacks.