FRIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fried mean? 

• FRIED (adjective)
  The adjective FRIED has 1 sense:

1. cooked by frying in fat

  Familiarity information: FRIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cooked by frying in fat

Synonyms:

deep-fried; fried

Similar:

cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)

 Context examples 

Quite an elegant dish of fish; the kidney-end of a loin of veal, roasted; fried sausage-meat; a partridge, and a pudding.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He paid a dollar each on account to the four tradesmen, and in his kitchen fried steak and onions, made coffee, and stewed a large pot of prunes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Nitrosamines are also found in many foods, including fish, beer, fried foods, and meats.

(Nitrosamine, NCI Dictionary)

Just then a man hailed us from the fire that breakfast was ready, and we were soon seated here and there about the sand over biscuit and fried junk.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When I passed them each a plate of the fried meat, they ate greedily, making loud mouth-noises—champings of worn teeth and sucking intakes of the breath, accompanied by a continuous spluttering and mumbling.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

My contribution was canned beef fried with crumbled sea-biscuit and water.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

By the bye, I must mind not to rise on your hearth with only a glass of water then: I must bring an egg at the least, to say nothing of fried ham.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These are found in vegetable shortenings, some margarines, crackers, cookies, snack foods, and other foods made with or fried in partially hydrogenated oils.

(Dietary Fats, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Trans fatty acids, or trans fats, are commonly found in fried foods, chips, crackers and baked goods.

(Trans Fat Bans Lessen Health Risks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Mr. Knightley looked as if he were more gratified than he cared to express; and before he could make any reply, Mr. Woodhouse, whose thoughts were on the Bates's, said—It is a great pity that their circumstances should be so confined! a great pity indeed! and I have often wished—but it is so little one can venture to do—small, trifling presents, of any thing uncommon—Now we have killed a porker, and Emma thinks of sending them a loin or a leg; it is very small and delicate—Hartfield pork is not like any other pork—but still it is pork—and, my dear Emma, unless one could be sure of their making it into steaks, nicely fried, as ours are fried, without the smallest grease, and not roast it, for no stomach can bear roast pork—I think we had better send the leg—do not you think so, my dear?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)