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fried-eggy en · ADJ

Etymology

From fried egg + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of a fried egg.
   • Each table bears a few well-edited sprigs from a cool local florist, plus an amusing fried-eggy votive, and generous serving platters made by a Carbondale ceramicist who goes by the name of Alleghany Meadows. 2001 February, Alison Cook, “Twin Peaks”, in Gourmet, page 60, column 3:
   • The cheeses made by Chimay, an ancient Trappist order based in Belgium, are excruciatingly delicious—truffly, fried-eggy. 1998, Food & Wine, volume 21:
   • The cuisine is memorable, if you have ever met or made Sunday omelets of depressed nature, flat and fried-eggy with a dribble of sauce. 1967 October 3, Ruth Bowen, “Papineau Climbed The Stairs”, in The Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., page 9, column 1:
   • [Gordon Burn:] You told me you had tugs-of-war with your sisters over small, common-or-garden, apparently insignificant household things, things that you felt meant more to you than the others. / [Rachel Whiteread:] No, I think we all had equal memories of baking cakes with my mum, or separating eggs … I’ve got this funny red plastic, fried-eggy object. Just totally silly. But I felt: ‘No, I need to have that.’ 2005 June 16, Rachel Whiteread, Gordon Burn, “Rachel Whiteread in conversation with Gordon Burn”, in Embankment (The Unilever Series), London: Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 74, column 2:
   • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration forbids the importation of raw-milk cheeses aged fewer than 60 days. Therefore, cheeses like “real” Brie and Camembert (both, if “real,” taste simultaneously fried-eggy, garlicky, nutty, trufflelike and mushroomy, [Steven] Jenkins says), are not legally available in the United States. 1997 March 20, Tamara Browning, “First-rate fromage: Author on mission to inform public about ‘real’ cheese”, in The Times, Munster, Ind., page C-5, columns 2–3:
   • >>I didn't say they [the breasts] were saggy.>> Saggy, droopy, fried eggy, what's the friggin' difference? All that matters is that there's something there to grab hold of ;-) 2005 May 21, The Baba [pseudonym], “Y&R Did Victoria not have time to take her own clothing out of her suitcase?”, in rec.arts.tv.soaps.cbs (Usenet), archived from the original on 21 Jan 2024:
2. (informal, rare) Containing fried eggs.
   • We five had a ricey, fried-eggy, egg-planty, hot-metal-potty, peanutty, 18-yuan-eachy enjoyable meal. 2006, Patrick Black, “China (1995-1997)”, in The Diary of a Curious Man, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 79:
   • It would only have taken her a hop and half a wingbeat to cover the yard between us, but instead she chose to walk it – right across my Full English. Crooning softly, she then climbed up my chest, leaving a line of fried-eggy footprints up my bathrobe, before settling down to lean contentedly against my ear. 2014, Martin Windrow, “Departure”, in The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 299:
   • I put on two more plates and cups, opened a can or so, and hastily prepared a fried-eggy lunch for these horsemen. 1936, Mary Kidder Rak, “Damsels, But no Distress”, in Mountain Cattle, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 131:

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