scrambled egg

English

scrambled eggs

Etymology

The gold braid sense is by fancied resemblance to the literal sense, with irreverence implied.

Pronunciation

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Noun

scrambled egg (countable and uncountable, plural scrambled eggs)

1. (usually in the plural) A dish made by beating and cooking eggs, sometimes mixed with milk, and typically stirred while cooking.

   Coordinate terms: fried egg, omelet, omelette, scromlette

2. (slang) The gold braid worn on the cap of an officer in the armed forces or police.
   • 1971, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather (screenplay, third draft)

     A massive POLICE CAPTAIN, spattered with gold braid and scrambled eggs on his hat, with beefy red face and white hair seems furious.

Derived terms

• scrambled egg slime mold

Translations

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• Afrikaans: roereier
• Arabic: بَيْض مَخْفُوق m (bayḍ maḵfūq)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 炒蛋 (caau² daan^6-2), 滑蛋 (waat⁶ daan^6-2) (runnier, more liquid consistency than 炒蛋)

  Mandarin: 炒蛋 (zh) (chǎodàn)

• Cornish: oy skramblys m
• Czech: míchaná vejce n pl
• Danish: røræg n or c
• Dutch: roerei (nl) n
• Esperanto: kirlovaĵo
• Estonian: munapuder (et)
• Finnish: munakokkeli (fi)
• French: œufs brouillés (fr) m
• Georgian: ათქვეფილი კვერცხები (atkvepili ḳvercxebi)
• German: Rührei (de) n
• Greek: χτυπητά αβγά n pl (chtypitá avgá)
• Hebrew: בֵּיצָה מְקֻשְׁקֶשֶׁת f (beytza mekushkéshet)
• Hungarian: rántotta (hu), tojásrántotta (hu), habart tojás
• Ido: ovo mixita
• Irish: uibheacha scrofa m pl
• Italian: uova strapazzate
• Japanese: スクランブルエッグ (ja) (sukuranburu eggu), スクランブルドエッグ (sukuranburudo eggu)
• Khmer: ពងមាន់ចៀន (pɔɔŋ moan ciən)
• Korean: 볶은 계란 (bokkeun gyeran)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: olu kultenis
• Lithuanian: kiaušinienė f
• Macedonian: кајгана f (kajgana)
• Manx: oohyn bwoailt f pl
• Norman: oeux sus l'ticl'ye m pl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eggerøre m or f

  Nynorsk: eggerøre f

• Persian: خاگینه (fa) (xâgine)
• Plautdietsch: Rearei n
• Polish: jajecznica (pl) f
• Portuguese: ovos mexidos m pl
• Russian: яи́чница-болту́нья f (jaíčnica-boltúnʹja), яи́чница (ru) f (jaíčnica)
• Scottish Gaelic: uighean pronn f pl
• Serbo-Croatian: kajgana (sh) f
• Sicilian: ovu cirusu m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: měšane jajo n

• Spanish: (Spain, Mexico) huevos revueltos m pl, (Colombia) huevos pericos m pl, (El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica) huevos picados m pl
• Swedish: äggröra (sv) c
• Thai: ไข่คน (th) (kài-kon), ไข่กวน (th) (kài-guuan)
• Tibetan: སྒོང་འབྲས (sgong 'bras)
• Turkish: çırpılmış yumurta
• Vilamovian: faonküch
• Welsh: wyau wedi'u sgramblo m pl
• Yiddish: פּרעזשעניצע f (prezhenitse), יאַיִטשניצע f (yaitshnitse), אייערשפּײַז f (eyershpayz)

slang: gold braid on an officer’s cap in the armed forces