egg-in-the-basket
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of egg in a basket: synonym of egg in a hole.
Example Sentences
- "Cracker Barrel also features a full breakfast menu. It includes biscuits and gravy, blackberry pancakes and eggs-in-the-basket, which features two slices of sourdough bread grilled with an egg in the middle and served with bacon or sausage."
- "Cowboy eggs and steak feature rich, free-range duck eggs from Fontana Farms of Reno fried inside sliced sourdough. The dish, from the restaurant’s Sunday brunch menu, is Ugalde’s take on eggs-in-the-basket."
- "Since the early 1900s, children in England, the United States, and Canada have enjoyed a breakfast called eggs-in-the-basket, also known as egg-in-the-hole, among myriad other names."
- "My truffled egg toast (normally a legendary luxe-filth spin on egg-in-the-basket) arrived as a sad, strangely cold brick of bread bearing a honking, gluey duvet of melted fontina/Gruyère mix and an oil-splashed egg."