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🥘 Cooked again ♻️ Reused or unoriginal 🍳 To fry again
refried

refried

3.3
Cooked beans that are mashed and fried again
  • adjective
  • /ˌriːˈfraɪd/
translation icon : frijoles refritos
  • For dinner, she made quesadillas using refried beans and fresh vegetables.

I also was going to make refried black beans.

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Examples

  • I also was going to make refried black beans.

    The Try Guys

  • No one can make refried beans look good.

  • It was, as we suspected, refried beans.

  • And I also needed refried beans and olives and chickpeas.

    Aspyn Ovard

  • And there's some sweetness in refried beans, isn't it?

    Good Mythical Morning

  • At the restaurant, I ordered a burrito filled with refried beans topped with cheese.

  • The chef recommended trying the tacos with refried black beans for a richer flavor.

Antonyms

raw
353 1.0

In a natural state not cooked, treated, or finished

Compounds

refried beans
4 1.2

Dried beans that are cooked, mashed, and fried and often served with Mexican food

Surface Forms

refried positive

Morphology

refried = refry (transparent) = re + fry + ed

This is a regular past-participial or adjectival form of the verb 'refry', so the meaning 'fried again' is straightforward.

Etymology

Refried comes from re- ('again') and fry ('to cook in hot oil'), so refried beans are beans that are mashed and cooked a second time.