fryingpan

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A form of frying pan — A long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food.

RareScrabble 18

Meanings

nounfryingpan (plural fryingpans)

plural fryingpans

  1. alternativeAlternative form of frying pan.

    Buy half a sheep's liver ; cut it into thin slices ; place it, with a bit of butter or dripping, in the fryingpan over a moderate fire, with two onions and two shallots sliced up fine.

    1872, The Food Journal, volume 2, page 94
    1 more example

    One of them, and he was the principal personage, was holding a fryingpan by its long handle; and in the fryingpan were lamp-wicks, which were called in the patois of the country farets.

    1880, Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné, History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin, volume 6, page 413
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