fried-eggy

Adjective

fried-eggy (comparative more fried-eggy, superlative most fried-eggy)

1. (informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of a fried egg.
   • The cuisine is memorable, if you have ever met or made Sunday omelets of depressed nature, flat and fried-eggy with a dribble of sauce.1967 October 3, Ruth Bowen, “Papineau Climbed The Stairs”, in The Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., page 9, column 1
   • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration forbids the importation of raw-milk cheeses aged fewer than 60 days. Therefore, cheeses like “real” Brie and Camembert (both, if “real,” taste simultaneously fried-eggy, garlicky, nutty, trufflelike and mushroomy, [Steven] Jenkins says), are not legally...1997 March 20, Tamara Browning, “First-rate fromage: Author on mission to inform public about ‘real’ cheese”, in The Times, Munster, Ind., page C-5, columns 2–3
2. (informal, rare) Containing fried eggs.
   • I put on two more plates and cups, opened a can or so, and hastily prepared a fried-eggy lunch for these horsemen.1936, Mary Kidder Rak, “Damsels, But no Distress”, in Mountain Cattle, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 131
   • We five had a ricey, fried-eggy, egg-planty, hot-metal-potty, peanutty, 18-yuan-eachy enjoyable meal.2006, Patrick Black, “China (1995-1997)”, in The Diary of a Curious Man, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 79