baked egg

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   egg cooked individually in cream or butter in a small ramekin

   Synonymsshirred eggegg en cocotte

   Broaderdish

Questions about baked egg

What does baked egg mean?

baked egg means "egg cooked individually in cream or butter in a small ramekin".

What is another word for baked egg?

Close synonyms include shirred egg, egg en cocotte. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is baked egg a common word?

baked egg is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.