shirred egg

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   egg cooked individually in cream or butter in a small ramekin

   Synonymsbaked eggegg en cocotte

   Broaderdish

Questions about shirred egg

What does shirred egg mean?

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

What is another word for shirred egg?

Close synonyms include baked 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 shirred egg a common word?

shirred 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.