omelette
/ˈɒmlɪt/
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British/ˈɔmlɪt/
omelette noun: a dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with other foodstuffs, for example cheese or chives.
Noun
omelette (countable and uncountable, plural omelettes)
- A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with other foodstuffs, for example cheese or chives.
- He crossed to the window, which looked on to a herb garden, and seated himself on the chintz-covered window-seat and delicately watched the two, who were engaged in eating omelette and salad at a round table near the fire-place.1912, Marjorie Bowen [pseudonym; Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long], “The Heretic”, in The Quest of Glory, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. […], part I (The Quest Joyful), pages 69–70
- She had never meant to confide in him — certainly not here, eating omelette and cheese sauce — but that look seemed to demand a confidence.1969, J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley, “London End”, in The Image Men, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 288
- A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed.
- This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium
Verb
omelette (third-person singular simple present omelettes, present participle omeletting, simple past and past participle omeletted)
- To make into an omelette.
- This recipe may be adapted for scrambled eggs, i.e., instead of omeletting the eggs, simply scramble them.2000, Rajnit Rai, Curry, Curry, Curry
- 'Your main concern should not be practical ethics, but to dissuade me from omeletting you.'2001, David Mitchell, chapter 1, in number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN
omelette meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
omelette in Hindi
- dish made with beaten eggs
- ऑमलेट ŏmleṭ, आमलेट āmleṭ
omelette in Tamil
- அட்டு, முட்டப்பம், முட்டடை, முட்டை ஊற்றப்பம், முட்டைப் பொறிப்பு, முட்டை அடை
omelette in Marathi
- dish made with beaten eggs
- आमलेट āmleṭ
omelette in Urdu
- dish made with beaten eggs
- آمْلیٹ āmleṭ
More languagesFewer languages
- omelette in Bengali
- অমলেট omoleṭ
- omelette in Malayalam
- പൊരിച്ച മുട്ട, ഓംലെറ്റ്, മുട്ടദോശ
- omelette in Gujarati
- ઓમલેટ omaleṭ
- omelette in Arabic
- عُجَّة ʕujja, عِجَّة ʕijja
- omelette in Malay
- telur dadar
- omelette in Indonesian
- telur dadar
- omelette in Thai
- ไข่เจียว kài-jiao, ไข่ฟู kài-fuu, ไข่ทอด kài-tɔ̂ɔt
- omelette in Vietnamese
- trứng đổ chả, trứng tráng, trứng ốp lết
Forms of omelette
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | omelettes |
| alternative US | omelet |
| alternative form | omlet |
| alternative form | omlette |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | omelettes |
| present participle | omeletting |
| past participle | omeletted |
| past | omeletted |
Origin of omelette
First attested in 1611; borrowed from French omelette, see which for further etymology.
Words formed from omelette
- chin omelette
- Denver omelette
- Florentine omelette
- friar's omelette
- omelette Arnold Bennett
- omelette-y
- omelettey
- omeletty
- oyster omelette
- scromlette
- Spanish omelette
- special omelette
- thick as a whale omelette
- tornado omelette
- you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
- you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette
Questions about omelette
- What does omelette mean?
- Omelette means a dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with other foodstuffs, for example cheese or chives.
- What is omelette in Hindi?
- Omelette in Hindi is ऑमलेट (ŏmleṭ), आमलेट (āmleṭ). See Omelette meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is omelette?
- Omelette can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce omelette?
- Omelette is pronounced /ˈɒmlɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of omelette?
- The plural of omelette is omelettes.
Words near omelette in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: omelette (page history and authors); omelette (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); omelette (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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