fried egg

Noun

fried egg (plural fried eggs)

1. (literally) An egg that has been shallow-fried on one or both sides without being beaten or stirred.
   • Just like daisies all spread
     O'er a broad sunny mead,
     In the sunbeams so beauteously shining,
     Are fried eggs fair displayed
     On a dish, when we've laid
     The cloth and are thinking of dining.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 555
   • It's difficult to have a perfectly cooked, cooked-through fried egg because, by the time the yolk has coagulated, or set, the white is overcooked. You'll usually have to settle for either a runny yolk or a tough white.1997 March 20, Kristin Eddy, “EGGS a dozen ways”, in Atlanta Journal Constitution
2. (slang) A golf ball half-buried in sand in a bunker.
   • Ever have a fried egg? Not the breakfast one, a fried egg lie in a bunker.2005, Jim Linkin, Patrick Livingston, “7: Getting Good from Bunkers”, in Great Golf for Life: The Teaching Professionals' Guide, Sports Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, page 99
3. (plural-normally, slang) A small female breast.
   • Not only is she keeping Moyles out of the Breakfast slot. We now have to look at her Fried eggs in the newspaper (well The Sun!!!!).1999 May 11, Sean Gallagher, “Zoe Ball's page 3”, in uk.media.radio.bbc-r1 (Usenet), message-ID <7ha8hh$5qo$1@news4.svr.pol.co.uk>
   • Placing his hands on her fried eggs he asked, “Any chance of some action?”2006, Sinead Moriarty, The Right Fit, →ISBN, page 18

   Synonyms:

   bee sting, mosquito bite