eggy
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Their dough, slow-fermented, eggy, kissed with citrus, closer to brioche than sponge.
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026
"It does feel cleaner when you're looking across and you can see there's nothing coming out. And the smell isn't there, like we used to have that eggy smell coming from there."
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2025
If you've over-boiled your eggs, this reaction forms a green ring around the yolk; it smells distinctly "eggy," or as my kiddo informs me, "farty."
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2023
My approximation of Carey’s omelet proved to have a good, eggy profile.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2022
The eggy daffodils on the wallpaper'd fossilized to slag-heap gray as the light faded.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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