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fried eggs

fried eggs is the plural of fried egg.

Meaning of 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
  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>

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What is fried eggs the plural of?
Fried eggs is the plural of fried egg.

Words near fried eggs in the dictionary

  1. fried chicken
  2. fried chicken mushroom
  3. fried chicken mushrooms
  4. fried dough
  5. fried egg
  6. fried eggs
  7. Fried Liver Attack
  8. fried oyster
  9. fried pie
  10. fried pies
  11. fried rice

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