fried, ppl. a.
(fraɪd)
Also 4 i-friȝet.
[pa. pple. of fry v.]
1. a. Cooked by frying.
| 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 298 Bote hit weore fresch flesch or elles fisch i-friȝet. c 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 500 Off Fryed metes be ware, for þey ar Fumose in dede. 1598 Epulario H j b, Cut it on both sides like a fried fish. 1771 Goldsm. Haunch of Venison, At the top a fried liver and bacon was seen. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. xii. 86 Roast mutton and fried potatos were our incessant fare. |
| fig. 1624 Capt. Smith Virginia vi. 208 Who would have sought for wealth amongst those fried Regions of blacke brutish Negars. |
b. fried-fish shop, a shop that sells fried fish, usually with fried (chipped) potatoes. Also, formerly,
fried-fish warehouse.
| 1838 Dickens O. Twist II. xxvi. 92 Field Lane..has its barber, its coffee-shop..and its fried-fish warehouse. 1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 215 I've just seed Liz Dukeson, the donah at the fried-fish shop. 1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air iv. vi. 275 Flats, pubs, fried-fish shops, picture-houses, on and on for twenty miles. |
2. Drunk.
slang.| 1926 in Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 201/1 Princeton has completed the idiom of the cuisine by adding fried to boiled and stewed, meaning intoxicated. 1954 N. Coward Future Indefinite iv. 195 After a gay reunion party..I retired to be slightly fried, blissfully happy. 1966 ‘D. Shannon’ With a Vengeance (1968) vi. 82, I don't know nothin' about how he got took off... I also heard he was fried that night. |