FRYING PAN


Meaning of FRYING PAN in English

1. a shallow, long-handled pan in which food is fried.

2. out of the frying pan into the fire , free of one predicament but immediately in a worse one.

Also, fry-pan, frypan /fruy"pan'/ . Also called skillet .

[ 1350-1400; ME fryinge panne ]

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