fried egg

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.
   • 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, Usenet‎, message-ID <7ha8hh$5qo$[e-mail]>:

     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 as "egg, sunny side up" or "egg, over easy".

Synonyms

• (small breast): bee sting

Translations

egg that has been shallow fried

Arabic: بَيْض مَقْلِيّ‎ m (bayḍ maqliyy) Armenian: ձվածեղ (hy) (jvaceł) 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) 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) Khmer: ស៊ុត​ចៀន (sut ciən) Korean: 계란 후라이 (gyeran hurai), 계란 프라이 (gyeran peurai) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Luxembourgish: Spigelee n Mon: (Can we verify(+) this translation?) ခၞာခၟာဲစာၚ် 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 m, huevo estrellado m Swedish: stekt ägg (sv) n Thai: ไข่ดาว (th) (kài-daao), ไข่ทอด (kài-tɔ̂ɔt) Turkish: sahanda yumurta

See also

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

Anagrams

• figgered