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Word entry · 5 letters

fryer

Best crossword clue

"Young chicken"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPart of speech nounSorted efrryStarts with FEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
1F2R3Y4E5R

Definitions

  1. flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying

Word origin

From fry + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix).

Used in a sentence

  • He learned to work the fryer as part of becoming a competent cook for a commercial kitchen.
  • “The Boasts have got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.”
  • 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 excellent fryer of fish?); […]

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