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Definition: Fricassee |
FricasseeNoun1. Pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings. Verb1. Make a fricassee of by cooking; "fricassee meats". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fricassee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1729. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entremet; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fricassee |
| English words defined with "fricassee": Blancmanger, Blanquette ♦ Fricando, Frlcassee. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fricassee": Fricace. (references) |
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Screenplays | Fricassee of reptile. (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior; writing credit: Terry Hayes; George Miller) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Fricassee recognising Joly and Laigle, put a bottle of wine on the table. |
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| "Fricassee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fricassee" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
chicken fricassee | 18 |
chicken fricassee recipe | 8 |
fricassee | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fricassee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | frikase, tasqebap (hash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فرم اللحم و يحمره, لحمة مقلية, لحمة محمرة, قلى (fry, slobber), حمر (bitumen, redden, rouge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | фрикасе. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pokrm (dish, Farina, flummery, pinole, quenelle, repast, Sillabub, victual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | frikasé (fricassée). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | fricassee (fricassée). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | frikassee (fricassée), viillokki (fricassée). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fricassée (fricassée). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | frikassieren, frikassee (fricassée). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φρικασέσ, φρικασέ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hússzeletek, csirkebecsinált. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fricassea (fricassée). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | フリート街 (experimental unmanned spacecraft, flea market, Fleet Street, flicker, flicker test, flip flop, free batting, free lance, free market, free pass, free-hand, free-lancer, friction, Friedman, frigate, frigidity, Frisbee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | フリカッセ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | soolagh (juice, juicy, pithy, sauce), jannoo soolagh jeh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icasseefray fricassé (fricative, hash), entreter-se (recreate). (various references) tocanã (goulash, haricot, ragout, stew). (various references) фрикасе. (various references) paprikaš (haricot, hash, salmagundi, stew). (various references) fricasé (fricassée). (various references) frikasse. (various references) yahni pişirmek, salçalı yemek yapmak. (various references) фрикасе. (various references) món thịt thái miếng hầm, món ragu chim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fricassee": fricasseed, fricasseeing, fricassees. (additional references) | |
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"Fricassee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fressgasse, fricase, fricasee, fricasse, Fricsay. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-i-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: casefies, freesias. | |
-2 letters: cerises, creases, faeries, farcies, fiacres, fraises, freesia, frisees, refaces, sferics. | |
-3 letters: aeries, arises, caress, caries, carses, ceases, cerias, cerise, crases, crasis, crease, crises, crissa, easier, easies, ecesis, erases, ericas, escars, facers, facies, faeces, faerie, farces, farcie, fasces, feases, feriae, ferias, fiacre, fierce, fraise, frisee, frises, raises, recess, reface, saices, sarees. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-f-i-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: briefcases, ceasefires, fricasseed, fricassees. | |
+2 letters: franchisees, luciferases. | |
+3 letters: archerfishes, craftinesses, enfranchises, fricasseeing, reclassified, reclassifies. | |
+4 letters: frankincenses, franticnesses. | |
+5 letters: affenpinschers, disenfranchise, overclassified, overclassifies, refractiveness, refractoriness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 72 69 63 61 73 73 65 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-. .. -.-. .- ... ... . . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100001 01110011 01110011 01100101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F r i c a s s e e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0072 0069 0063 0061 0073 0073 0065 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)408475696785857171 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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