deviled egg

1. 1.

   halved hard-cooked egg with the yolk mashed with mayonnaise and seasonings and returned to the white

   Synonymsstuffed egg

   Broaderdish

Questions about deviled egg

What does deviled egg mean?

deviled egg means "halved hard-cooked egg with the yolk mashed with mayonnaise and seasonings and returned to the white".

What is another word for deviled egg?

Close synonyms include stuffed egg. 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 deviled egg a common word?

deviled egg is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.