Meaning of fried-eggy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fried egg.
   informal, rare
2. Containing fried eggs.
   informal, rare

Examples

“The cuisine is memorable, if you have ever met or made Sunday omelets of depressed nature, flat and fried-eggy with a dribble of sauce.”

“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration forbids the importation of raw-milk cheeses aged fewer than 60 days. Therefore, cheeses like “real” Brie and Camembert (both, if “real,” taste simultaneously fried-eggy, garlicky, nutty, trufflelike and mushroomy, [Steven] Jenkins says), are not legally available in the United States.”

“The cheeses made by Chimay, an ancient Trappist order based in Belgium, are excruciatingly delicious—truffly, fried-eggy.”

“Each table bears a few well-edited sprigs from a cool local florist, plus an amusing fried-eggy votive, and generous serving platters made by a Carbondale ceramicist who goes by the name of Alleghany Meadows.”

“>>I didn't say they [the breasts] were saggy.>> Saggy, droopy, fried eggy, what's the friggin' difference? All that matters is that there's something there to grab hold of ;-)”

“[Gordon Burn:] You told me you had tugs-of-war with your sisters over small, common-or-garden, apparently insignificant household things, things that you felt meant more to you than the others. / [Rachel Whiteread:] No, I think we all had equal memories of baking cakes with my mum, or separating eggs … I’ve got this funny red plastic, fried-eggy object. Just totally silly. But I felt: ‘No, I need to have that.’”

“I put on two more plates and cups, opened a can or so, and hastily prepared a fried-eggy lunch for these horsemen.”

“We five had a ricey, fried-eggy, egg-planty, hot-metal-potty, peanutty, 18-yuan-eachy enjoyable meal.”

“It would only have taken her a hop and half a wingbeat to cover the yard between us, but instead she chose to walk it – right across my Full English. Crooning softly, she then climbed up my chest, leaving a line of fried-eggy footprints up my bathrobe, before settling down to lean contentedly against my ear.”

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