Synonyms of the word

fry

• v. (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
• v. (intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To be executed by the electric chair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
• n. (usually in plural fries) (mainly Canada and US) A fried strip of potato.
• n. (Ireland, Britain) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
• n. (colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
• n. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
• n. Young fish; fishlings.
• n. (archaic) A swarm, especially of something small (a fry of children).
• n. (Britain dialectal) The spawn of frogs.
• n. A kind of sieve.
• n. A drain.

child

• n. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal…
• n. (with possessive) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
• n. (with possessive) One's descendants, regardless of age.
• n. (figuratively) A figurative offspring, particularly.

cook

• n. (cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.
• n. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
• n. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
• n. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
• n. A fish, the European striped wrasse.
• v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
• v. (intransitive) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other…
• v. (intransitive) To be being cooked.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
• v. (transitive, slang) To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost…
• v. To concoct or prepare.
• v. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
• v. (intransitive, idiomatic, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way…
• v. (intransitive, idiomatic, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
• v. (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
• v. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To throw.

dramatist

• n. playwright.

electrocute

• v. (transitive) To kill by electric shock.
• v. (transitive, proscribed, informal) To inflict a severe electric shock (not necessarily fatal) upon.

heat

• n. (uncountable) Thermal energy.
• n. (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
• n. (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
• n. (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
• n. (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
• n. (uncountable, slang) The police.
• n. (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
• n. (countable, baseball) A fastball.
• n. (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore…
• n. (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
• n. (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to…
• n. (countable) A hot spell.
• n. (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
• n. (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
• v. To cause an increase in temperature of an object or space; to cause something to become hot (often with…
• v. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
• v. To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
• v. To arouse, to excite (sexually).

juvenile

• adj. young; not fully developed.
• adj. characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish.
• n. A prepubescent child.
• n. A person not legally of age, or who is younger than may be charged with an offence.
• n. An animal that is not sexually mature.
• n. An actor playing a child's role.
• n. A publication for young adult readers.

kid

• n. A young goat.
• n. Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid.
• n. Kidskin.
• n. (uncountable) The meat of a young goat.
• n. A young antelope.
• n. (informal) a child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.
• n. (colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
• n. (nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
• n. (informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular decade or area.
• n. (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
• n. (used in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To make a fool of (someone).
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To make a joke with (someone).
• v. (intransitive) Of a goat, to give birth to kids.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To joke.
• n. A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.

kill

• v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
• v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
• v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
• v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
• v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
• v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
• v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
• v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
• v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
• n. The act of killing.
• n. Specifically, the death blow.
• n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
• n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
• n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
• n. A kiln.

minor

• adj. Of little significance or importance.
• adj. (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the…
• adj. (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
• n. A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities…
• n. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who…
• n. (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix.
• n. (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
• n. (zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
• v. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

nestling

• n. A small bird that is still confined to the nest.
• n. (obsolete) A nest; a receptacle.
• v. present participle of nestle.
• n. The act of one who nestles.

nipper

• n. One who, or that which, nips.
• n. (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
• n. (slang) A child.
• n. (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
• n. (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
• n. One of four foreteeth in a horse.
• n. (obsolete) A satirist.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
• n. A fish, the cunner.
• n. A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
• n. The claws of a crab or lobster.
• n. (dated) A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.

painter

• n. An artist who paints pictures.
• n. A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
• n. (obsolete) A chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use.
• n. (nautical) A rope connected to the bow of a boat, used to attach it to e.g. a jetty or another boat.
• n. (US) A mountain lion, by mispronunciation of "panther".

playwright

• n. A writer and creator of theatrical plays.

shaver

• n. One who shaves.
• n. A barber, one whose occupation is to shave.
• n. A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor.
• n. (slang, obsolete) One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
• n. One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
• n. (colloquial) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.

tiddler

• n. A small person.
• n. (Britain, informal) A small fish, especially a stickleback.

tike

• n. Alternative spelling of tyke (mongrel dog).
• n. A boorish person.
• n. Archaic form of tick (a kind of arthropod).

tyke

• n. (dialectal) A mongrel dog.
• n. (colloquial) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one.
• n. (dated, chiefly Britain) A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
• n. (Britain, informal) A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, informal, derogatory) A Roman Catholic.

youngster

• n. A young person.