CODDLED EGG

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Egg cooked briefly in the shell in gently boiling water

Synonyms:

boiled egg; coddled egg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("coddled egg" is a kind of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coddled egg"):

hard-boiled egg; hard-cooked egg (an egg boiled gently until both the white and the yolk solidify)