dropped egg

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   egg cooked in gently boiling water

   Synonymspoached egg

   Broaderdish

Questions about dropped egg

What does dropped egg mean?

dropped egg means "egg cooked in gently boiling water".

What is another word for dropped egg?

Close synonyms include poached 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 dropped egg a common word?

dropped 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.