french fries

See also: French fries

English
French fries in a bowl.

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Etymology

Shortening of earlier French fried potatoes (1856; sometimes French-fried), potatoes prepared in the French style.[1]

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Noun

french fries pl (normally plural, singular french fry)

  1. (chiefly Canada, US) Strips of deep-fried potatoes that have been frenched (cut into strips). [from 1903]
    French fries is a specialty of the house.
    • 1903, Lillian Pettengill, Toilers of the Home, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 292:
      “What's the matter?” she asked quickly. “Haven't we had all the things before? Soup, chops, peas, French fries, and the fruit pudding–there wasn't a thing new.”
    • 1922, Robert C. Benchley, chapter XXII, in Love Conquers All, Henry Holt & Company, page 111:
      His first official act was to order dinner. “A nice, juicy steak,” he is said to have called for, “French fries, apple pie and a cup of coffee.” It is probable that he really said “a coff of cuppee,” however, as he was a wag of the first water and loved a joke as well as the next king.

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  1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “french fries”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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