fricassee

See also: fricassée

English

Alternative forms

• fricassée

Etymology

From French fricassée (noun), from fricassée, past participle of fricasser (verb).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɪ.kəˌsi/, /fɹɪ.kəˈsiː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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  • (UK, also) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɪ.kəˌseɪ/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

fricassee (plural fricassees)

1. Meat or poultry cut into small pieces, stewed or fried and served in its own gravy.
   • 1729, Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal:

     I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust.

Translations

meat or poultry cut into small pieces, stewed or fried and served in its own gravy

• Finnish: viillokki (fi)
• French: fricassée (fr) f
• Georgian: ფრიკასე (priḳase)
• German: Frikassee (de) n
• Greek: φρικασέ (el) n (frikasé)
• Ido: frikasajo (io), frikasita karno
• Norwegian: frikassé m
• Polish: frykas (pl) m
• Portuguese: fricassé (pt) m, fricassê (pt) m
• Russian: фрикасе́ (ru) n (frikasɛ́)
• Spanish: fricasé m

Verb

fricassee (third-person singular simple present fricassees, present participle fricasseeing, simple past and past participle fricasseed)

1. (transitive, cooking) To cook meat or poultry in this manner.
   • 1999, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Essays 1999, Black Inc., →ISBN, page 16:

     Just now I'm waiting for Tony Goodwin [the publisher] to arrive, casseroling a rabbit, fricasseeing it actually, listening to Revolver on the record player and the gale stripping the olive trees outside, and answering my correspondence, when […]

Translations

to cook meat or poultry in this manner

• German: frikassieren (de)
• Ido: frikasar (io)

Anagrams

• sfericase

Italian

Noun

fricassee f

1. plural of fricassea

Anagrams

• rifacesse, sfascerei