sunny-side up

American

[suhn-ee-sahyd] / ˈsʌn iˌsaɪd /

adjective

(of an egg) fried without breaking the yolk or being turned over, with the yolk remaining visible and somewhat liquid inside.

sunny-side up British

adjective

(of eggs) fried on one side only

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Etymology

Origin of sunny-side up

First recorded in 1900–05

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sunny-side up

Whether you like your eggs sunny-side up, hard boiled or scrambled, many hesitate to eat them amid concerns that eggs may raise cholesterol levels and be bad for heart health.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024

At breakfast, I sometimes use it right away to fry hash browns or cook a sunny-side up egg.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2021

TikTok recipes have ranged between scrambled, fried, sunny-side up, omelets, poached, deviled and more.

From Fox News ● May 24, 2021

But prepared at their most simple—especially poached, soft-boiled, sunny-side up or down—they tend to strike me as somehow unfinished, not quite meant for consumption.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2018

The cells looked a little bit like fried eggs, sunny-side up.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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