poached egg
noun1
An egg that has been cooked by gently breaking it into simmering or very hot water.
- With adolescent perversity, he turned up his nose at all of the elegant French items on the Closerie's menu and scandalized the waitron by demanding corned-beef hash—fried extra crisp—with poached eggs, a slice of fresh papaya with lime, banana-walnut bread, and a pitcher of Mexican chocolate.1992, Julian May, Jack the Bodiless, Knopf, →ISBN, →OL:
- Synonyms
- dropped egg
- Derived terms
- poached egg daisy
- Related terms
- poacher
- Coordinate terms
- boiled egg, fried egg, scrambled egg