fry small

fry small
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gente insignificante, arraia-miúda.

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  • fry — ‘cook in fat’ [13] and fry ‘young fish’ [14] are quite distinct words. The former comes via Old French frire from Latin frīgere, a cooking term which covered what we would now distinguish as ‘roasting’ and ‘frying’. It goes back ultimately to… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • fry — ‘cook in fat’ [13] and fry ‘young fish’ [14] are quite distinct words. The former comes via Old French frire from Latin frīgere, a cooking term which covered what we would now distinguish as ‘roasting’ and ‘frying’. It goes back ultimately to… …   Word origins

  • small — [adj1] tiny in size, quantity baby, bantam, bitty*, cramped, diminutive, humble, immature, inadequate, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insufficient, limited, little, meager, microscopic, mini*, miniature, minuscule, minute, modest, narrow,… …   New thesaurus

  • small fry — noun 1. a young person of either sex she writes books for children they re just kids tiddler is a British term for youngster • Syn: ↑child, ↑kid, ↑youngster, ↑minor, ↑s …   Useful english dictionary

  • Small Fry Club — The Small Fry Club, also known as Movies for Small Fry, is one of the earliest TV series made for children. Aired from 11 March 1947 to 15 June 1951 on the DuMont Television Network, it was hosted by Big Brother Bob Emery . Contents 1 Broadcast… …   Wikipedia

  • fry — 1 verb past tense and past participle fried 1 (I, T) to cook something in hot fat or oil, or to be cooked in hot fat or oil: Fry the onions until they are golden. 2 (I, T) AmE slang to kill someone, or to be killed, as a punishment in the… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • small potatoes — Synonyms and related words: Middle America, a nobody, a nothing, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, cipher, common man, dummy, figurehead, fourth rater, insignificancy, jackstraw, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, middle… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • small fry — {n.} 1. Young children. * /In the park, a sandbox is provided for the small fry./ 2. Something or someone of little importance. * /Large dairies ignore the competition from the small fry who make only a few hundred pounds of cheese a year./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • small fry — {n.} 1. Young children. * /In the park, a sandbox is provided for the small fry./ 2. Something or someone of little importance. * /Large dairies ignore the competition from the small fry who make only a few hundred pounds of cheese a year./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • small fry — small fry, adj. 1. children: a treat for the small fry. 2. unimportant persons or objects: Her parties were closed to the small fry. 3. small or young fish. [1895 1900] * * * …   Universalium

  • Fry — Fry, n. [OE. fri, fry, seed, descendants, cf. OF. froye spawning, spawn of. fishes, little fishes, fr. L. fricare tosub (see {Friction}), but cf. also Icel. fr[ae], frj[=o], seed, Sw. & Dan. fr[ o], Goth. fraiw seed, descendants.] [1913 Webster]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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