fryll.html - See: OTHER FISH TO FRY, OUT OF THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE, SMALL FRY.

fryll.html - v. & n.
--v.

(fries, fried)
1 tr. & intr. cook or be cooked in hot fat.
2 tr. & intr. sl. electrocute or be electrocuted.
3 tr. (as fried adj.) sl. drunk.

--n.

(pl. fries)
1 various internal parts of animals usu. eaten fried (lamb's fry).
2 a dish of fried food, esp. meat.
3 US a social gathering to eat fried food.

frying- (US fry-) pan a shallow pan used in frying. fry up heat or reheat (food) in a frying-pan. fry-up n. Brit. colloq. a dish of miscellaneous fried food. out of the frying-pan into the fire from a bad situation to a worse one. [ME f. OF frire f. L frigere]

fryll.html - n.pl.
1 young or newly hatched fishes.
2 the young of other creatures produced in large numbers, e.g. bees or frogs.

small fry people of little importance; children. [ME f. ON frj×]

fryll.html - n.
(also frier)
1 a person who fries.
2 a vessel for frying esp. fish.
3 US a chicken suitable for frying.

fryll.html - {n. phr.} One's mental outlook; the state of one's psychological condition, * /There is no use trying to talk to him while he is in such a negative frame of mind./

fryll.html - {v. phr.}, {slang} To lose control over one's conscious self due to the influence of hallucinogenic drugs. * /Joe freaked out last night./