• frier

Fromfry +‎-er(agent noun suffix) or +‎-er(patient suffix).

• Rhymes:-aɪə(ɹ)

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• Homophone:friar

fryer (pluralfryers)

1. A machine or container forfryingfood.

   He learned to work the fryer as part of becoming a competent cook for a commercial kitchen.

2. Afish suitable for frying.
3. A youngchicken suitable for frying; apullet.

   Coordinate terms:broiler,layer,roaster,stewer

4. One whofries.
   • 1842 June, “Heraldry of Fish. Notices of the principal Families bearing Fish in their Arms. By Thomas Moule. […]”, inThe Gentleman’s Magazine, volume XVII, London:William Pickering;John Bowyer Nichols and Son, page611, column 1:

     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 excellentfryer of fish?);[…]

   • 1858 May 1,George Augustus Sala, “Twice Round the Clock, or The Hours of the Day and Night in London”, inThe Welcome Guest: A Magazine of Recreative Reading for All, London: Office […], page 7, 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.”

   • 1926,George Wharton Edwards,Spain, Penn Publishing Company, page325:

     Of course this may be true, this story of thefryer of fish in the square San Antonio, but the man may have been lying to me—that is, “stringing” me, as we say.

   • 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”, inSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume80, number307, St. Louis, Mo.,page 1, column 4:

     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 afryer of fish for the President.

   • 1943,Radio Broadcasts, page 2:

     Now I'm an excellentfryer of eggs, and the way I do it - do you want to know how I do it?

   • 1945 September 29, Jack Alexander, “The President’s New Lawyer”, inThe Saturday Evening Post, volume218, number13,page10, column 1:

     Clark is especially pleased when someone mentions his skill in the kitchen. “I am a great hot-cake cooker,” he says, warming up to his subject, “and I am one of the greatest dishwashers in the country. I am also one of the greatestfryers of chicken in the country, and I toss up a dandy fruit salad—grapefruit, oranges, pineapple and bananas, with French dressing. I really fix it up.”

   • 1954,P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse,Guy Bolton, chapter 13, inBring On the Girls: The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy, with Pictures to Prove it, London:Herbert Jenkins Ltd.,page175:

     It seemed that here was a young lady who, while willing to accept three pounds a week for decorating the stage of the Winter Garden for a season or two, very definitely had other fish to fry. She was, as afryer of fish, to make quite a name for herself.

   • 1990, Mons Daveson,Paradise Island,Harlequin,→ISBN, page55:

     ‘I might not be the bestfryer of fish,’ said Alexis’ voice from beside her, ‘but I am considered a very good hand as a maker of salads.’

   • 1997, “Mary Mackey”, inContemporary Authors Autobiography,Gale,→ISBN, pages202–203:

     My grandmother McGinness (whom I called “Nana") was an ardent bird-watcher and a dedicated catcher, filleter, andfryer of fish.

   • 2001, AnnieMae Robertson,Murder Sets the Scene, Writers Club Press,→ISBN, page50:

     Michelangelo was an excellentfryer of eggs, a real master with a skillet, far better than I was.

   • 2007, Humphrey Taman Davies, editor,Yūsuf Al-S̲h̲irbīnī’s Kitāb Hazz Al-quḥūf Bi-Sharḥ Qaṣīd Abī Shādūf: English Translation, Introduction and Notes,Peeters Publishers,→ISBN, page279:

     In the same vein is what happened once concerning a man who was afryer of fish by trade.

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