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Noun
poached egg (plural poached eggs)
- 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.
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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)
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