| 释义 |
fryer, frier|ˈfraɪə(r)|
[f. fry v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who fries (fish); also a vessel used in frying (fish). More fully fish-frier: see fish n.1 6 d.
1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 18 Offal [fish] is bought only by the ‘fryers’. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. p. lvii/2 Four Large Fish Fryers.
2. pl. Fish for frying.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 166 This supply is known in the trade as ‘friers’, and consists of the overplus of a fishmonger's stock.
3. A chicken suitable for frying. U.S.
1923Dialect Notes V. 207 Frier, a chicken of frying size. 1940C. McCullers Heart is Lonely Hunter (1943) i. iii. 41 They haves [sic] a mule and..from twenty to twenty-five laying hens and fryers. 1957J. Steinbeck Short Reign of Pippin IV 67 H.W...was selling eggs and fryers to the Army and Navy. |