fried egg

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fried egg

noun fried eggs

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.
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.
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!!!!).
Similar: bee sting, mosquito bite

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noun egg that has been shallow fried

Español	huevo frito, huevo estrellado
한국어	계란 후라이 gyeran hurai, 계란 프라이 gyeran peurai, 달걀 프라이 dalgyal peurai
日本語	目玉焼き medamayaki
中文	煎雞蛋 /煎鸡蛋 jiān jīdàn, 煎蛋 jiāndàn, 荷包蛋 hébāodàn
Português	ovo frito, ovo estrelado
Français	œuf au plat, œuf sur le plat, œuf miroir
Deutsch	Spiegelei
Italiano	uovo al tegamino, uovo all'occhio di bue
Ελληνικά	τηγανητό αβγό tiganitó avgó
Română	ou ochi
Русский	яи́чница-глазу́нья jaíčnica-glazúnʹja, яи́чница jaíčnica, глазу́нья glazúnʹja
Tiếng Việt	trứng chiên, trứng ốp la
العربية	بَيْض مَقْلِيّ bayḍ maqliyy
עברית	בֵּיצַת עַיִן, עַיִן

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@misc{fried_egg_2026,
  title = {fried egg},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fried%20egg},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}