fryer

CEFRB1

/frˈaɪər/

noun

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01
noun
A deep pan or machine used for frying food.
02
noun
Extra detail
A fish suitable for frying.

Examples

Clearly you don't own an air fryer.
He put the croquette in the deep fryer.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

A young chicken suitable for frying; a pullet or cockerel.
A machine or container for frying food.
One who fries.

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In context

He learned to work the fryer as part of becoming a competent cook for a commercial kitchen.
“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.”
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?); […]

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“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 Picker...
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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Origin

noun

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

Deep Dive

noun

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noun

The cook dropped the fish into the hot blank to fry it.