poached egg

English

Noun

poached egg (plural poached eggs)

1. An egg that has been cooked by gently breaking it into simmering or very hot water.
   • 1992, Julian May, Jack the Bodiless, Knopf, →ISBN, →OL:

     With adolescent perversity, he turned up his nose at all of the elegant French items on the Closerie's menu and scandalized the waitron by demanding corned-beef hash—fried extra crisp—with poached eggs, a slice of fresh papaya with lime, banana-walnut bread, and a pitcher of Mexican chocolate.

Synonyms

• dropped egg

Coordinate terms

• boiled egg
• fried egg
• scrambled egg

 

Related terms

• poacher (sense 2)

Translations

type of cooked egg

• Arabic: بَيْض مَسْلُوق بِدُونَ قِشْر m (bayḍ maslūq bidūna qišr)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: arrautza eskalfatu
• Catalan: ou escalfat m, ou escumat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 荷包蛋 (zh) (hébāodàn), 水煮荷包蛋 (shuǐzhǔ hébāodàn), 水煮嫩蛋 (zh) (shuǐzhǔnèndàn), 水波蛋 (zh) (shuǐbōdàn), 臥果兒／卧果儿 (zh) (wòguǒr)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: uppomuna (fi)
• French: œuf poché (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: pochiertes Ei n, verlorenes Ei n
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: buggyantott tojás (hu)
• Italian: uovo in camicia m, uovo affogato m
• Japanese: ポーチドエッグ (pōchidoeggu)
• Korean: 수란(水卵) (ko) (suran)
• Latin: ovum hapalum n
• Mon: ခၟာဲစာၚ်ၜိုဟ် (mnw)
• Norman: oeu sus l'ticl'ye m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: posjert egg n

• Polish: jajko w koszulce n
• Romanian: ou poșat n
• Russian: яйцо́-пашо́т n (jajcó-pašót)
• Spanish: huevo escalfado m
• Swedish: förlorade ägg, pocherade ägg
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ไข่ดาวน้ำ (th) (kài-daao-náam)
• Turkish: çılbır (tr), poşe yumurta
• Ukrainian: яйце́ пашо́т n (jajcé pašót), яйце́ в соро́чечці n (jajcé v soróčečci)

Further reading

• “poached egg”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.