eggsalad

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A form of egg salad — A dish made primarily of chopped hard-boiled eggs and mayonnaise, often including other ingredients such as celery or mustard; it is frequently used as a sandwich spread.

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Meanings

nouneggsalad (usually uncountable, plural eggsalads)

plural eggsalads

  1. alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative spelling of egg salad.

    Eggsalad an coffee ta go!

    1971, Bill Amidon, Charge...!, page 328
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    He was delighted to go downstairs to buy her a carton of coffee and an eggsalad sandwich.

    1951, John Dos Passos, Chosen Country, page 301

    ...then later, barely bored now with the romance, going in to buy in the tobacco-smoke haze an eggsalad sandwich wrapped in wax paper...

    1961, Peter Sourian, The Best and Worst of Times, page 26

    You took me window shopping in the French Quarter; for walks in Audubon Park; to KB's fountain to eat eggsalad sandwiches and drink malted milks; and now and then to a picture show.

    1996, Norma Hubbard, The Haunting of Willowwynn, page 60

    Monterey cheese cheap from Doug's dairy or cheapo tins of sardines mashed between limp Graham crackers after the redbird wore off or baked garlic cloves zit squeezed onto sourdough sponges or chive colonized soupy eggsalad drools out of finger-dented white bread...

    2004, David Meltzer, Beat Thing, page 31

    Schliemann threw another eggsalad page up into her path as she passed.

    2007, Geoff Wyss, Tiny Clubs, page 102
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “eggsalad,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eggsalad.

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