frying-pan
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See also: frying pan and fryingpan
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]frying-pan (plural frying-pans)
- Alternative spelling of frying pan
- 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 70:
- The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll’s frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter!
- 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 63:
- “No, papa, but I expect to do a great deal of fancy cooking myself.” “Oh, you do! Well, then, buy all the contraptions that are necessary, but don’t omit the plain gridirons and frying-pans.”