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prairie oysters

prairie oysters is the plural of prairie oyster.

Meaning of prairie oyster

Noun

prairie oyster (plural prairie oysters)

  1. A drink consisting of a raw egg with yolk intact, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, salt, and ground black pepper.
    • ‘Would you like a Prairie Oyster?’ She produced glasses, eggs and a bottle of Worcester sauce from the boot-cupboard under the dismantled washstand: ‘I practically live on them.’1939, Christopher Isherwood, “Sally Bowles”, in Goodbye to Berlin
  2. A Rocky Mountain oyster; a bull calf testicle prepared as food.

Noun capitalized: Prairie Oysters

Prairie Oysters

  1. (plural) plural of Prairie Oyster

Questions about prairie oysters

What is prairie oysters the plural of?
Prairie oysters is the plural of prairie oyster.
What part of speech is prairie oysters?
Prairie oysters is a noun.

Words near prairie oysters in the dictionary

  1. prairie meet
  2. prairie meets
  3. prairie nigger
  4. prairie niggers
  5. prairie oyster
  6. prairie oysters
  7. prairie pasqueflower
  8. prairie pine
  9. prairie plum
  10. prairie plums
  11. prairie pointers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prairie oysters (page history and authors); Prairie Oysters (page history and authors); prairie oyster (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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