[f. prec. sb. Cf. F. fricasser.] trans. To make a fricassee of; to dress as a fricassee. Also transf.
1657. R. Ligon, Barbadoes (1673), 10. The torrid heat of the Sun, being then our Zenith, did so scald us without, as we were in a fitter condition to be fricased for the Padres dinner, than to eat any dinner our selves.
1671. Eachard, Observ. Answ. Cont. Clergy (1696), 63. Some are of such nice and fashionable stomachs, that common sense and truth will not down with them unless they be hash’d, and fricasse’d.
1737. Compl. Fam.-Piece, I. ii. 127. To dress fresh Sturgeon. You may fricasy it, or fry it as you do Veal.
1788. Ld. Auckland, Diary, Corr. 1861, II. 76. They are all fried and fricasséed by the sun at Madrid.
1817. Keats, Lett., Wks. 1889, III. 72. I would have … fricaseed (how is it spelt?) her radishes—ragouted her onions.
1859. Thackeray, Virgin., viii. We cannot afford to be both scalped by Indians or fricasseed by French.
1874. M. Cooke, Fungi (1875), iv. 98. In Austria it [Sparassis crispa] is fricasseed with butter and herbs.
fig. 1719. D’Urfey, Pills, II. 2.
| He Trills, and Gapes, and Struts, | |
| And Fricassee’s the Notes, | |
| Our Crew may crack their Gutts, | |
| They ne’er will win ye. |
Hence Fricassee’d ppl. a., lit. and fig.
1672. R. Wild, Declar. Lib. Consc., 9. All manner of Rost, boyl’d … friggassi’d, carbonado’d sinners of both sexes.
1768. Sterne, Sent. Journ. (1775), I. 4. By three I had got sat down to my dinner upon a fricassee’d chicken.
1859. Jephson, Brittany, v. 54. After a breakfast of fresh sardines, stewed kidneys, bif-tek aux pommes-de-terre, fricasseed chicken, omelette, cheese, peaches and pears, washed down with half a bottle of Bordeaux, I hired a guide, and set off in search of châteaux, churches, abbeys, the picturesque in general, and any adventures which chance might send me.
