scotch egg

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   hard-cooked egg encased in sausage meat then breaded and deep-fried

   Broaderdish

Questions about scotch egg

What does scotch egg mean?

scotch egg means "hard-cooked egg encased in sausage meat then breaded and deep-fried".

Is scotch egg a common word?

scotch 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.