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dropped egg

American  

noun

New England.
  1. a poached egg.


Etymology

Origin of dropped egg

First recorded in 1820–25

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

From Miss Parloa's New Cook Book by Maria Parloa

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

From Stevenson Memorial Cook Book by Various

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 Christopher Morley

Serve a dropped egg with one tablespoon tomato purée.

From The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes by Lewis Webb Hill

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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