fry·ing pan (fr   ng)n. A shallow, long-handled pan used for frying food. Also called skillet; also called regionally fry pan, spider. Regional Note: The terms frying pan and skillet are now virtually interchangeable, but there was a time when they were so regional as to be distinct dialect markers. Frying pan and the shortened version fry pan were once New England terms; frying pan is now in general use, as is the less common fry pan, now heard in the Atlantic states, the South, and the West, as well as New England. Skillet seems to have been confined to the Midland section of the country, including the Upper South. Its use is still concentrated there, but it is no longer used in that area alone, probably because of the national marketing of skillet dinner mixes. The term spider, originally denoting a type of frying pan that had long legs to hold it up over the coals, spread from New England westward to the Upper Northern states and down the coast to the South Atlantic states. It is still well known in both these regions, although it is now considered old-fashioned. See Note at andiron. |
frying pan esp US, fry-pan
n
1. (Cookery) a long-handled shallow pan used for frying
out of the frying pan into the fire from a bad situation to a worse one
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  frying pan - a pan used for frying foods electric frying pan - a frying pan heated by electricity handgrip, handle, grip, hold - the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip" cooking pan, pan - cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel spider - a skillet made of cast iron |
Translations
frying pan
n → Bratpfanne f; to jump out of the frying pan into the fire (Prov) → vom Regen in die Traufe kommen (Prov)
frying pan [ˈfraɪɪŋˈpæn] n → padella
to jump out of the frying pan into the fire → cadere dalla padella nella brace
frying pan [ˈfraɪɪŋˈpæn] n → padella
to jump out of the frying pan into the fire → cadere dalla padella nella brace
to jump out of the frying pan into the fire → cadere dalla padella nella brace
frying pan [ˈfraɪɪŋˈpæn] n → padella
to jump out of the frying pan into the fire → cadere dalla padella nella brace
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