fried egg

English

A fried egg, sunny side up

Pronunciation

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Noun

fried egg (plural fried eggs)

1. An egg that has been shallow-fried on one or both sides, without being beaten or stirred.

   Coordinate terms: boiled egg, omelet, omelette, poached egg, scrambled egg, scromlette

   • 1997 March 20, Kristin Eddy, “EGGS a dozen ways”, in Atlanta Journal Constitution:

     It's difficult to have a perfectly cooked, cooked-through fried egg because, by the time the yolk has coagulated, or set, the white is overcooked. You'll usually have to settle for either a runny yolk or a tough white.

   • 1997 April 16, JANET FLETCHER, “FLEETING PLEASURES; The first blush of spring's harvest”, in San Francisco Chronicle:

     Carefully break the egg into a bowl, […] Cook until the egg white is set, then turn and cook briefly. The yolk should still be runny. […] Top with the fried egg.

   • 2004 Autumn, Julie Keith, “Pneumonia”, in The Hudson Review, volume 57, Iss. 3, page 440:

     "Your dad said you should have a fried egg. He's gone to work awhile back. You want one or two?" I hesitated, and she must have caught a look of distaste on my face, for she added amiably, "Or you like scrambled better?"

2. (golf, slang) A golf ball half-buried in sand in a bunker.
3. (slang, usually in the plural) A small female breast.
   • 1999 May 11, Sean Gallagher, “Zoe Ball's page 3”, in uk.media.radio.bbc-r1‎^[1] (Usenet), message-ID <7ha8hh$5qo$1@news4.svr.pol.co.uk>:

     Not only is she keeping Moyles out of the Breakfast slot. We now have to look at her Fried eggs in the newspaper (well The Sun!!!!).

   • 2006, Sinead Moriarty, The Right Fit, →ISBN, page 18:

     Placing his hands on her fried eggs he asked, “Any chance of some action?”

   • 2009, Fred Broussard, South Carolin: Island in the Sea of States, volume 2, →ISBN, page 8:

     She pats her breast, not so much to draw attention to her fried eggs, but to force her breaths to become rhythmic.

Usage notes

• Commonly referred to in parts of the US by the more specific terms "egg, sunny side up" or "egg, over easy".

Synonyms

• (small breast): bee sting

Derived terms

• fried-egg plant
• fried-eggy

 

Translations

egg that has been shallow fried

• Arabic: بَيْض مَقْلِيّ m (bayḍ maqliyy)
• Armenian: ձվածեղ (hy) (jvaceġ)
• Belarusian: яе́чня f (jajéčnja)
• Catalan: ou ferrat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (chicken egg) 煎雞蛋／煎鸡蛋 (jiān jīdàn), (any egg) 煎蛋 (zh) (jiāndàn), 荷包蛋 (zh) (hébāodàn)

• Czech: volské oko (cs) n
• Danish: spejlæg (da) n
• Dutch: spiegelei (nl) n
• Esperanto: fritita ovo
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: stokt egg n, steikt egg n
• Finnish: paistettu muna
• French: œuf au plat (fr) m, œuf sur le plat (fr) m, œuf miroir (fr) m
• German: Spiegelei (de) n
• Greek: τηγανητό αβγό n (tiganitó avgó)
• Gujarati: તળેલું ઈંડું n (taḷelũ ī̃ḍũ)
• Hungarian: tükörtojás (hu)
• Icelandic: spælegg n, steikt egg n
• Indonesian: telur goreng
• Italian: uovo al tegamino m
• Japanese: 目玉焼き (ja) (めだまやき, medamayaki)
• Kazakh: уыздық (uyzdyq)
• Khmer: ស៊ុត​ចៀន (sut ciən)
• Korean: 계란 후라이 (gyeran hurai), 계란 프라이 (gyeran peurai)
• Kyrgyz: яичница (yaicnitsa)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: kiaušinienė f
• Luxembourgish: Spigelee n
• Mon: ^{(please verify)} ခၞာခၟာဲစာၚ် (mnw)
• Mongolian: шарсан өндөг (šarsan öndög)
• Norman: oeu fricachi m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: speilegg n

• Persian: نیمرو (fa) (nimru)
• Polish: jajko sadzone (pl) n
• Portuguese: ovo estrelado m
• Romanian: ou ochi n
• Russian: яи́чница-глазу́нья (ru) f (jaíčnica-glazúnʹja) (sunny side up), яи́чница (ru) f (jaíčnica)
• Spanish: huevo frito (es) m, huevo estrellado m
• Swedish: stekt ägg (sv) n
• Tajik: тухмбирён (tuxmbiryon)
• Thai: ไข่ดาว (th) (kài-daao), ไข่ทอด (kài-tɔ̂ɔt)
• Turkish: sahanda yumurta
• Ukrainian: яє́чня (uk) f (jajéčnja)

See also

• over easy
• sunny side up
• fried egg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Fried eggs on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• figgered