dropped egg

American  

noun

New England.

1. a poached egg.

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Etymology

Origin of dropped egg

First recorded in 1820–25

Example Sentences

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.

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

From One Third Off by Sarg, Tony

Serve a dropped egg with one tablespoon tomato purée.

From The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes by Hill, Lewis Webb

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

But Spartanlike I put temptation sternly behind me and told the officiating collegian to bring me plain boiled prunes, coffee with hot milk and saccharin tablets, dry toast and one dropped egg.

From One Third Off by Sarg, Tony