dropped egg

American  

noun

New England.

1. a poached egg.

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Etymology

Origin of dropped egg

First recorded in 1820–25

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Example Sentences

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dropped egg

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

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

But a superficial inquiry convinced me that the egg was not properly a dropped egg at all.

From One Third Off by Tony Sarg

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 Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Oh, yes," says I. "That's as plain as a dropped egg on a plate of hash.

From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford

And, say, for a speakin' likeness of a dropped egg that's hit the floor instead of the toast, he was it!

From Torchy by George Brehm

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