FRICASSEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fricassee mean? 

• FRICASSEE (noun)
  The noun FRICASSEE has 1 sense:

1. pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings

  Familiarity information: FRICASSEE used as a noun is very rare.

• FRICASSEE (verb)
  The verb FRICASSEE has 1 sense:

1. make a fricassee of by cooking

  Familiarity information: FRICASSEE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRICASSEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("fricassee" is a kind of...):

stew (food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fricassee"):

chicken stew (a stew made with chicken)

turkey stew (a stew made with turkey)

Derivation:

fricassee (make a fricassee of by cooking)

• FRICASSEE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fricassee    ... he / she / it fricassees   
Past simple: fricasseed   
Past participle: fricasseed   
-ing form: fricasseeing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a fricassee of by cooking

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

fricassee meats

Hypernyms (to "fricassee" is one way to...):

cook (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs fricassee the vegetables

Derivation:

fricassee (pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings)

 Context examples 

The baked apples and biscuits, excellent in their way, you know; but there was a delicate fricassee of sweetbread and some asparagus brought in at first, and good Mr. Woodhouse, not thinking the asparagus quite boiled enough, sent it all out again.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)