fried egg

plural fried eggs

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

   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.

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

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   Just like daisies all spread O'er a broad sunny mead, In the sunbeams so beauteously shining, Are fried eggs fair displayed On a dish, when we've laid The cloth and are thinking of dining.

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 555

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

   "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?"

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

2. slanggolfA golf ball half-buried in sand in a bunker.

   Ever have a fried egg? Not the breakfast one, a fried egg lie in a bunker.

   2005, Jim Linkin, Patrick Livingston, “7: Getting Good from Bunkers”, in Great Golf for Life: The Teaching Professionals' Guide, Sports Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, page 99

3. plural normallyslangA small female breast.

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

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

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   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!!!!).

   1999 May 11, Sean Gallagher, “Zoe Ball's page 3”, in uk.media.radio.bbc-r1 (Usenet), message-ID <7ha8hh$5qo$1@news4.svr.pol.co.uk>

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

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

   Synonyms: bee sting, mosquito bite