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unfry

verb

Etymology

From un- + fry.

  1. derived from fricō — “to rub”
  2. derived from froiz
  3. derived from *(s)per-✻
  4. derived from *fraiwą✻ — “seed, semen, offspring”
  5. derived from frjó — “seed, semen”
  6. inherited from frie — “spawn of fish, young or small fish, offspring, progeny, children”
  7. prefixed as unfry — “un + fry”

Definitions

  1. To reverse the process of frying.

    • In one sequence, a light bulb in frying pan turns into an egg that, by the use of reverse motion, seems to unfry itself and leap back into the shell […]
    • Building a green house is about as easy as unfrying an egg.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unfry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA