frying pann.
/ˈfrʌɪɪŋ pan/, U.S. /ˈfraɪɪŋ ˌpæn/ 1. A shallow pan, usually of iron, with a long handle, in which food is fried.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > pan > frying-pan
frying pan1382
frixory1657
spider1807
fry-pan1832
fryer1859
padella1874
fish-fryer1892
chip pan1901
skillet1917
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Chron. xxiii. 29 The prestis..to the fryinge panne [L. ad sartaginem].
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxviii. 1379 Sartago ‘þe fryyng panne’ haþ þat name of þe noyse þat is þerinne whanne oyle brenneþ þerinne.
1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 129 Item, for a frying pane x.d.
1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde ii. f. lxiiii That remayneth, frye it to gether in a fryenge panne with sugre.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. v. 58 For want of nets..we attempted to catch them [fish] with a frying pan.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth V. 38 Frying-pans they do use for Ladles.
1806 ‘Ignotus’ Culina (ed. 3) 218 Melt a piece of butter in a frying-pan..pour in the above preparation.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxvii. 564 Which..resembled the noise of fifty fryingpans in active operation.
2. figurative.
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?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) 643 O frieng panne of all fritters of fraud.
1616–61 B. Holyday tr. Persius Sat. (1673) 296 This hissing frying-pan of speach.
Phrases
(to jump, leap, etc.) out of the frying pan into the fire: to escape from one evil only to fall into a greater one; cf. out of the pan into the fire at pan n.1 Phrases 2.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > there is danger in a course of action [phrase] > out of a small danger into a great one
(to jump, leap, etc.) out of the frying pan into the fire1532
out of the smoke into the fire1547
out of the pan into the firea1599
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 488/2 [He] featly conuayed himself out of the frying panne fayre into the fyre.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hiv Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre. And change from yl pein to wurs.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. vi. 32 Like..the foolish fish that leapeth out of the frying pan into the fire.
1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft 25 Priestcraft got the Ascendant at Rome, and then Men were—out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire.
1890 Guardian 1 Oct. 1507/3 If they thought they could get away from the State by disestablishment, they would find that they were jumping out of the frying-pan into the fire.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as frying-pan maker.
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1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 336 There are but two Master Frying-pan makers..in the whole Kingdom.
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frying-pan brand n. Australian ‘a large brand used by cattle-stealers to cover the owner's brand’ (Morris).
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1857 F. De B. Cooper Wild Adventures Austral. 104 This person..got into some trouble..by using a ‘frying-pan brand’.
frying-pan plate n. ? a piece of tin-plate cut out to be made into a frying pan.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > plated or coated metal > [noun] > tinplate > specific
frying-pan plate1686
tin1879
electro-tinplate1945
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 335 Nine fryingpan-plates being commonly laid upon one another, and claspt together by turning up 4 Labells.
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