fried eggとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fried egg (plural fried eggs)

1. (literally, cooking) An egg that has been shallow-fried on one or both sides without being beaten or stirred.

   Coordinate terms: boiled egg, omelet, omelette, poached egg, scrambled egg, scromlette

   • 1997 March 20, Kristin Eddy, “EGGS a dozen ways”, in Atlanta Journal Constitution:

     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 April 16, JANET FLETCHER, “FLEETING PLEASURES; The first blush of spring's harvest”, in San Francisco Chronicle:

     Carefully break the egg into a bowl, […] Cook until the egg white is set, then turn and cook briefly. The yolk should still be runny. […] Top with the fried egg.

   • 2004 Autumn, Julie Keith, “Pneumonia”, in The Hudson Review, volume 57, Iss. 3, page 440:

     "Your dad said you should have a fried egg. He's gone to work awhile back. You want one or two?" I hesitated, and she must have caught a look of distaste on my face, for she added amiably, "Or you like scrambled better?"

2. (golf slang) A golf ball half-buried in sand in a bunker.
3. (usually in the plural, slang) A small female breast.

   Synonyms: bee sting, mosquito bite

   • 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>:

     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!!!!).

   • 2006, Sinead Moriarty, The Right Fit, →ISBN, page 18:

     Placing his hands on her fried eggs he asked, “Any chance of some action?”

   • 2009, Fred Broussard, South Carolin: Island in the Sea of States, volume 2, →ISBN, page 8:

     She pats her breast, not so much to draw attention to her fried eggs, but to force her breaths to become rhythmic.

4. (Can we verify this sense?) (Wikimedia jargon) A collocation which is not idiomatic; a sum of its parts.

使用する際の注意点

• Commonly referred to in parts of the US by the more specific terms egg, sunny side up and egg, over easy.

派生語

参考

Further reading

• fried egg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Fried eggs on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

アナグラム

• figgered