poached egg

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   egg cooked in gently boiling water

   Synonymsdropped egg

   Broaderdish

Questions about poached egg

What does poached egg mean?

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

What is another word for poached egg?

Close synonyms include dropped 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 poached egg a common word?

poached 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.