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dropped egg

American  

noun

New England.
  1. a poached egg.


Etymology

Origin of dropped egg

First recorded in 1820–25

Example Sentences

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Now, it is quite impossible to hide the fact of a dropped egg.

From Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers by Emerson, Alice B.

Put a dropped egg in the centre of each slice, and serve very hot.

From Miss Parloa's New Cook Book by Parloa, Maria

No mount of piety along Sixth Avenue will accept it in pawn, no Hartford Lunch will exchange it for corned beef hash and dropped egg.

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher

Arrange on each a dropped egg, and pour around mushroom sauce.

From Stevenson Memorial Cook Book by Various

One called her medicine dropper, and another drop-cake, and another dropped egg, and so on; and away they all went into the house, laughing and shouting and tumbling over each other.

From Hildegarde's Neighbors by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe