fried

See also: Fried

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɹaɪd/

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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 computer equipment) Broken as a result of excessive heat or an electrical surge.

   It looks like your motherboard is fried.

5. (slang) stoned; under the influence of drugs

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

6. (slang) Drunk.
   • 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

7. (slang) 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

• deep-fat-fried
• deep-fried
• fried chicken
• fried egg
• Southern-fried

 

Translations

cooked by frying

• Arabic: مَقْلِيّ (maqliyy)

  Egyptian Arabic: مقلي (maqliyy)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَقْلي (magli)

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

  Mandarin: 油煎 (yóujiān), 煎 (zh) (jiān)

• Finnish: paistettu (fi)
• French: frit (fr)
• German: gebraten (de), frittiert (de)
• Greek: τηγανητός (el) (tiganitós)
• Hungarian: sült (hu)
• Italian: fritto (it)
• Japanese: 油で揚げた (ja) (あぶらであげた, abura de ageta), フライの (furai no)
• Latin: frictus
• Mansi:
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• Mongolian: шарсан (mn) (šarsan)
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• 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)
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• Polish: sadzony (pl)

broken as a result of heat or electricity

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

Anagrams

• Efird, Fedir, RIFed, fired, redif