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fried-eggy
adj 2
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3ADJ.
delicious, flat
PREP.
with
ADV.
excruciatingly, truffly
Definitions
adj
1
Resembling or characteristic of a fried egg.
The cuisine is memorable, if you have ever met or made Sunday omelets of depressed nature, flat and fried-eggy with a dribble of sauce.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration forbids the importation of raw-milk cheeses aged fewer than 60 days. Therefore, cheeses like “real” Brie and Camembert (both, if “real,” taste simultaneously fried-eggy, garlicky, nutty, trufflelike and mushroomy, [Steven] Jenkins says), are not legally available in the United States.
2
Containing fried eggs.
I put on two more plates and cups, opened a can or so, and hastily prepared a fried-eggy lunch for these horsemen.
We five had a ricey, fried-eggy, egg-planty, hot-metal-potty, peanutty, 18-yuan-eachy enjoyable meal.
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The cuisine is memorable, if you have ever met or made Sunday omelets of depressed nature, flat and fried-eggy with a dribble of sauce.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration forbids the importation of raw-milk cheeses aged fewer than 60 days. Therefore, cheeses like “real” Brie and Camembert (both, if “real,” taste simultaneously frie
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The cheeses made by Chimay, an ancient Trappist order based in Belgium, are excruciatingly delicious—truffly, fried-eggy.
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