home fries
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1.8
- noun
- /hoʊm fraɪz/
- US
:
papas fritas
- For breakfast, I ordered scrambled eggs and crispy home fries.
- home fries and toast
- home fries and eggs
- home fries and bacon
Examples
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"Okay," he said, letting out his breath, "I'll take two scrambled eggs, bacon, home fries, wheat toast, and tomato."
Fiction book (1999) -
They order double home fries and two beers.
Fiction book (2000) -
- Coffee, home fries, eggs over easy.
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Have to have a lot of ketchup with my home fries.
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My husband had your basic biscuits, eggs, and home fries.
Blog text (14) -
Plus sausage, home fries, cappuccino and one of your famous cupcakes!
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She ordered a huge breakfast of sausage, eggs, home fries, and toast, commenting that she hadn't had dinner last night.
Fiction book (1997) -
Sunny-side eggs, sausage with bacon, home fries, homemade biscuits and country gravy.
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I liked the way she packed down two fried eggs, four sausages, a heap of home fries, buttered toast, juice, and tea with cream.
Fiction book (1997) -
It's an old Kansas City breakfast thing: slice of ham, some sausages, couple of strips of bacon... two eggs, any style... home fries, ham... hot butter toast.
Synonyms
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1.0
Long thin pieces of potato that are fried in hot oil and often served with ketchup
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1.0
Thick fried potato pieces eaten hot as a snack or side
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1.0
Thin pieces of potato fried until crispy and served hot
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4.1
Thin pieces of potato fried in oil and served hot as a side
Sliced potatoes fried in a pan until brown and crisp
Thin pieces of potato cooked in hot oil until crispy and served as a side
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'home fries' is directly interpretable as 'fries made at home' or 'home-style fries' — combining 'home' (style/origin) with 'fries' (fried potatoes) yields the intended meaning. While the exact preparation (diced and pan-fried rather than thin deep-fried strips) is a finer culinary detail, the general notion of fried potato side dish is transparently derivable and is cross-linguistically familiar.
Etymology
Home fries may come from simple home cooking, when people cut potatoes into pieces and fried them in a pan at home. So home plus fries became a name for those fried potato pieces, often served as a 'breakfast side dish'.