fried-eggy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.15 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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.’"
Etymology
From fried egg + -y.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more fried-eggy (comparative)
most fried-eggy (superlative)