egg-in-the-hole
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.25 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "To assemble each sandwich, cut 2 bacon slices in half crosswise and place on a cheesy bread slice, then cover with an egg-in-the-hole, egg facing up."
- "Clover walked past Vero and playfully boxed his ear while he sat in the kitchen eating an egg-in-the-hole. It was his favorite breakfast—an egg fried inside a hole cut in the middle of a slice of bread."
- "Add some pepper strips to an egg-in-the-hole and you have a variation on my Italian grandmother’s go-to breakfast."
- "No disrespect to my mom, but he [Dad] managed to cook better breakfasts in camp than my mom cared to make in the house—perhaps because cooking breakfast was a novelty to him, while my mom had long ago burned out. He made eggs-in-the-hole, beer-apple pancakes, and smoked trout hash."