poached eggn.

Brit.

/ˌpəʊtʃt ˈɛɡ/, U.S.

/ˌpoʊtʃt ˈɛɡ/

Forms: see poached adj.¹ and egg n.; also 1600s potsht egge (Scottish), 1800s porcht egg.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: poached adj.¹, egg n.

Etymology: < poached adj.¹ + egg n.

1. An egg that has been cooked in simmering or gently boiling water without its shell. See also poached adj.¹ a.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [noun] > other egg dishes

poachéa1425

meseladea1450

potrona1450

malasadec1450

poached eggc1450

eggs in moonshine?1558

snow1597

fondue1806

Scotch egg1808

soufflé1813

scrabbed eggsa1825

Scotch woodcock1836

egg salad1873

prairie oyster1879

Adam and Eve on a raft1891

Russian egg1891

eggs Benedict1898

huevos rancheros1901

sabayon1906

oeuf en cocotte1909

shakshuka1930

piperade1931

thousand-year egg1961

c1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 94 Pocched egges [c1450 Harl. 4016 Potage de egges..breke faire rawe egges and caste hem in þe water].

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. F j b Poched egges are better than egges rosted hard or rere.

1562 W. Bullein Bk. Use Sicke Men f. 2^v, in Bulwarke of Defence Geue the pacient two or thre tymes poached Egges, saused with a little Wyne & Pepper.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta v. 84 A couple of potched [1650 poched] Egges.

1678 E. Howard Man of Newmarket ii. 21 There may be a vanity in all Comprehensions; as he that eats one poach'd egg, may possibly long for more.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xiv. 95 Whether a poached Egg, or Chicken broth.

1769 J. Skeat Art of Cookery 36 Put some in the dish, with the head in the middle. Potch'd eggs and rashers of bacon for garnish.

1849 H. Melville Redburn lvii. 353 Every steerage passenger, whose destitution was demonstrable, should be given one sea-biscuit and two potatoes a day; a sort of substitute for a muffin and a brace of poached eggs.

1889 A. Lang Prince Prigio ii. 10 Why the king..should have poached eggs and plum-cake at afternoon tea.

1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. v. 257 They ate poached eggs on haddock and banana splits.

2000 Here's Health May 76/1 Organic poached eggs are a great source of protein, ideally combined with fibre as in eggs florentine.

2. Any of several gastropod molluscs of the genus Ovula (family Ovulidae), having a smooth, oval, white shell with a narrow rim. Also poached egg shell. Cf. Ovula n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Cypraeidae > member of genus Ovulum

poached egg1776

china-shell1886

1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 177 The Poached Egg, and some others, are esteemed rare and curious shells.

1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 257/1 Ovulum, (..commonly called Poached Eggs).

1901 E. Step Shell Life xiv. 244 The Poached Egg (Ovula patula) has a mouth that is much longer than the shell proper, and it appears to be all body-whorl.

1977 N. F. McMillan Observer's Bk. Seashells Brit. Isles 66 Poached-egg shell Simnia patula (Pennant).

3. Sport (chiefly Golf).

a. In similative expressions.

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1890 J. M. Heathcote et al. Tennis (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 115 His muscular forearm and wrist enabled him to impart such cut to the ball that it would drop in the corner of the court like a ‘poached egg’.

1893 National Rev. Oct. 187 Lofting a ball over a wide bunker so that it drops on the green like a poached egg.

1911 Times 28 Mar. 16/3 Vardon and Duncan..will..pitch the ball high in the air and right up to the hole, to fall, like the proverbial poached egg, upon the green.

1915 Times 4 Aug. 9/5 The ball came down off the end wall like a poached egg.

1931 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 19 Mar. 21/6 This new ball doesn't hop. It just sits down, like a poached egg. And I'm consistently short.

1955 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 29 June 17/1 Fleck's arching iron had settled like a poached egg.

b. A stroke which causes the ball to fall dead rather than bounce on.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > motion of ball > types of ball by motion

grounder1849

daisy-cutter1889

rainbow1891

poached egg1893

screamer1896

scorcher1900

swerver1902

slam1931

thunderbolt1959

1893 Sat. Rev. 19 Aug. 207/2 The [tennis] ball..would..drop in the back-hand corner about chase two, and fall within that distance, a regular ‘poached egg’.

1903 Windsor Mag. Sept. 385/2 The ball in a stroke of this kind will assume an oval shape something like a cucumber. This stroke is called in Stické parlance ‘a poached egg’.

1924 Times 22 May 7/1 Williams picks up a poached egg out of the backhand corner of a rackets court.

4. Cookery. A dessert resembling a poached egg in appearance, esp. one consisting of a halved peach or apricot, placed on top of a piece of sponge cake and surrounded with cream.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > peach dishes

peach cobbler1859

peach Melba1906

poached egg1925

1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper vii. 180 Turn your Flummery out,..and take a Bit out of the Top of every one, and lay in half of a preserved Apricot; it will confine the Syrup from discolouring the Flummery, and make it like the Yolk of a poached Egg.

1900 A. N. Whybrow Day by Day Cookery Bk. 105 Dip half an apricot into the syrup and place on each round of cake; arrange some..whipped cream neatly round to resemble a poached egg, and grate a little nutmeg over to represent pepper.]

1925 Eagle Cook Bk. & Househ. Man. 31/1 Poached Egg. With a biscuit cutter..cut out rounds of sponge cake... Cover each round of cake with whipped cream,..and then lay ½ canned peach..on top to represent an egg yolk.

1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 592/1 ‘Poached eggs’ (halved and glazed peaches on rounds of sponge cake, surrounded by a ring of whipped cream).

1959 Listener 24 Dec. 1135/1 ‘Poached eggs’: rounds of sponge cake, covered with a halved tinned apricot with a ribbon of whipped cream piped round the edge.

2000 Independent 22 Apr. 39 Miss McClure's curious ‘poached eggs’.

2003 Marin (Calif.) Independent Jrnl. (Nexis) 7 May That simple and attractive dish became a favorite of ours. It was Faux (we thought of it as make-believe) Poached Eggs on Toast... Recipe: 1 pound cake, store-bought. 1 can apricot halves. Sweetened whipped cream.]

5. In plural = poached egg flower n. at Compounds. rare.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > North American

innocent1600

lychnidea1733

swamp lily1737

atamasco lily1743

phlox1754

lychnis1760

painted cup1776

mountain pink1818

phacelia1818

innocence1821

Nemophila1822

clarkia1827

Physostegia1830

bitter root1838

standing cypress1841

false mermaid1845

lion's heart1845

shooting star1856

lewisia1863

satin flower1871

fame-flower1879

baby blue-eyes1887

mayflower1892

agastache1900

obedient plant1900

Pennsylvania anemone1900

rock rose1906

Virginia bluebell1934

parsley1936

poached egg flower1963

poached eggs1971

poached egg plant1977

1971 Guardian 17 Apr. 7/8 The low-growing annual Limnanthes douglasii, known to children as ‘Poached Eggs’..will make a tapestry of lemon and white at the front of a sunny bed.

Compounds

poached egg flower n. an ornamental annual plant native to California, Limnanthes douglasii (family Limnanthaceae), bearing white flowers with yellow centres; also called meadow foam.

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innocent1600

lychnidea1733

swamp lily1737

atamasco lily1743

phlox1754

lychnis1760

painted cup1776

mountain pink1818

phacelia1818

innocence1821

Nemophila1822

clarkia1827

Physostegia1830

bitter root1838

standing cypress1841

false mermaid1845

lion's heart1845

shooting star1856

lewisia1863

satin flower1871

fame-flower1879

baby blue-eyes1887

mayflower1892

agastache1900

obedient plant1900

Pennsylvania anemone1900

rock rose1906

Virginia bluebell1934

parsley1936

poached egg flower1963

poached eggs1971

poached egg plant1977

1963 R. D. Meikle Garden Flowers 135 Poached-egg Flower... The cordate petals are yellow at the base and white at the apex, producing a parti-coloured effect which at once suggests (to the inartistic) the popular name.

1973 Country Life 30 Aug. 565/1 In Britain we call Limnanthes douglasii the poached-egg flower, but in America they use the much more appropriate name of meadow foam.

1995 Nichols Garden Nursery 48/1 (advt.) Poached Egg Flower (Limnanthes douglasii)... A low spreading mass of white and yellow blooms. Known as poached egg flower because of the large yellow center and white petal edging.

poached egg plant n. = poached egg flower n.

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innocent1600

lychnidea1733

swamp lily1737

atamasco lily1743

phlox1754

lychnis1760

painted cup1776

mountain pink1818

phacelia1818

innocence1821

Nemophila1822

clarkia1827

Physostegia1830

bitter root1838

standing cypress1841

false mermaid1845

lion's heart1845

shooting star1856

lewisia1863

satin flower1871

fame-flower1879

baby blue-eyes1887

mayflower1892

agastache1900

obedient plant1900

Pennsylvania anemone1900

rock rose1906

Virginia bluebell1934

parsley1936

poached egg flower1963

poached eggs1971

poached egg plant1977

1977 M. Allan Darwin & His Flowers xv. 261 (caption) Limnanthes douglasii, the ‘Poached Egg Plant’, which Darwin found was self-pollinating.

1978 Woman's Jrnl. Dec. 15/4 Do consider..the poached-egg plant called Limnanthes douglasii, a dwarf annual with ravishing yellow and white flowers.

1997 Mail on Sunday 10 Aug. i. 61/4 I plant the poached egg plant..along the edge of my paths to attract hoverflies, which in turn attack the aphids in the garden.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	poached egg
释义	poached eggn. Brit. /ˌpəʊtʃt ˈɛɡ/, U.S. /ˌpoʊtʃt ˈɛɡ/ Forms: see poached adj.¹ and egg n.; also 1600s potsht egge (Scottish), 1800s porcht egg. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: poached adj.¹, egg n. Etymology: < poached adj.¹ + egg n. 1. An egg that has been cooked in simmering or gently boiling water without its shell. See also poached adj.¹ a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [noun] > other egg dishes poachéa1425 meseladea1450 potrona1450 malasadec1450 poached eggc1450 eggs in moonshine?1558 snow1597 fondue1806 Scotch egg1808 soufflé1813 scrabbed eggsa1825 Scotch woodcock1836 egg salad1873 prairie oyster1879 Adam and Eve on a raft1891 Russian egg1891 eggs Benedict1898 huevos rancheros1901 sabayon1906 oeuf en cocotte1909 shakshuka1930 piperade1931 thousand-year egg1961 c1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 94 Pocched egges [c1450 Harl. 4016 Potage de egges..breke faire rawe egges and caste hem in þe water]. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. F j b Poched egges are better than egges rosted hard or rere. 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Use Sicke Men f. 2^v, in Bulwarke of Defence Geue the pacient two or thre tymes poached Egges, saused with a little Wyne & Pepper. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta v. 84 A couple of potched [1650 poched] Egges. 1678 E. Howard Man of Newmarket ii. 21 There may be a vanity in all Comprehensions; as he that eats one poach'd egg, may possibly long for more. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xiv. 95 Whether a poached Egg, or Chicken broth. View more context for this quotation 1769 J. Skeat Art of Cookery 36 Put some in the dish, with the head in the middle. Potch'd eggs and rashers of bacon for garnish. 1849 H. Melville Redburn lvii. 353 Every steerage passenger, whose destitution was demonstrable, should be given one sea-biscuit and two potatoes a day; a sort of substitute for a muffin and a brace of poached eggs. 1889 A. Lang Prince Prigio ii. 10 Why the king..should have poached eggs and plum-cake at afternoon tea. 1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. v. 257 They ate poached eggs on haddock and banana splits. 2000 Here's Health May 76/1 Organic poached eggs are a great source of protein, ideally combined with fibre as in eggs florentine. 2. Any of several gastropod molluscs of the genus Ovula (family Ovulidae), having a smooth, oval, white shell with a narrow rim. Also poached egg shell. Cf. Ovula n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Cypraeidae > member of genus Ovulum poached egg1776 china-shell1886 1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 177 The Poached Egg, and some others, are esteemed rare and curious shells. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 257/1 Ovulum, (..commonly called Poached Eggs). 1901 E. Step Shell Life xiv. 244 The Poached Egg (Ovula patula) has a mouth that is much longer than the shell proper, and it appears to be all body-whorl. 1977 N. F. McMillan Observer's Bk. Seashells Brit. Isles 66 Poached-egg shell Simnia patula (Pennant). 3. Sport (chiefly Golf). a. In similative expressions. ΚΠ 1890 J. M. Heathcote et al. Tennis (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 115 His muscular forearm and wrist enabled him to impart such cut to the ball that it would drop in the corner of the court like a ‘poached egg’. 1893 National Rev. Oct. 187 Lofting a ball over a wide bunker so that it drops on the green like a poached egg. 1911 Times 28 Mar. 16/3 Vardon and Duncan..will..pitch the ball high in the air and right up to the hole, to fall, like the proverbial poached egg, upon the green. 1915 Times 4 Aug. 9/5 The ball came down off the end wall like a poached egg. 1931 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 19 Mar. 21/6 This new ball doesn't hop. It just sits down, like a poached egg. And I'm consistently short. 1955 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 29 June 17/1 Fleck's arching iron had settled like a poached egg. b. A stroke which causes the ball to fall dead rather than bounce on. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > motion of ball > types of ball by motion grounder1849 daisy-cutter1889 rainbow1891 poached egg1893 screamer1896 scorcher1900 swerver1902 slam1931 thunderbolt1959 1893 Sat. Rev. 19 Aug. 207/2 The [tennis] ball..would..drop in the back-hand corner about chase two, and fall within that distance, a regular ‘poached egg’. 1903 Windsor Mag. Sept. 385/2 The ball in a stroke of this kind will assume an oval shape something like a cucumber. This stroke is called in Stické parlance ‘a poached egg’. 1924 Times 22 May 7/1 Williams picks up a poached egg out of the backhand corner of a rackets court. 4. Cookery. A dessert resembling a poached egg in appearance, esp. one consisting of a halved peach or apricot, placed on top of a piece of sponge cake and surrounded with cream. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > peach dishes peach cobbler1859 peach Melba1906 poached egg1925 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper vii. 180 Turn your Flummery out,..and take a Bit out of the Top of every one, and lay in half of a preserved Apricot; it will confine the Syrup from discolouring the Flummery, and make it like the Yolk of a poached Egg. 1900 A. N. Whybrow Day by Day Cookery Bk. 105 Dip half an apricot into the syrup and place on each round of cake; arrange some..whipped cream neatly round to resemble a poached egg, and grate a little nutmeg over to represent pepper.] 1925 Eagle Cook Bk. & Househ. Man. 31/1 Poached Egg. With a biscuit cutter..cut out rounds of sponge cake... Cover each round of cake with whipped cream,..and then lay ½ canned peach..on top to represent an egg yolk. 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 592/1 ‘Poached eggs’ (halved and glazed peaches on rounds of sponge cake, surrounded by a ring of whipped cream). 1959 Listener 24 Dec. 1135/1 ‘Poached eggs’: rounds of sponge cake, covered with a halved tinned apricot with a ribbon of whipped cream piped round the edge. 2000 Independent 22 Apr. 39 Miss McClure's curious ‘poached eggs’. 2003 Marin (Calif.) Independent Jrnl. (Nexis) 7 May That simple and attractive dish became a favorite of ours. It was Faux (we thought of it as make-believe) Poached Eggs on Toast... Recipe: 1 pound cake, store-bought. 1 can apricot halves. Sweetened whipped cream.] 5. In plural = poached egg flower n. at Compounds. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > North American innocent1600 lychnidea1733 swamp lily1737 atamasco lily1743 phlox1754 lychnis1760 painted cup1776 mountain pink1818 phacelia1818 innocence1821 Nemophila1822 clarkia1827 Physostegia1830 bitter root1838 standing cypress1841 false mermaid1845 lion's heart1845 shooting star1856 lewisia1863 satin flower1871 fame-flower1879 baby blue-eyes1887 mayflower1892 agastache1900 obedient plant1900 Pennsylvania anemone1900 rock rose1906 Virginia bluebell1934 parsley1936 poached egg flower1963 poached eggs1971 poached egg plant1977 1971 Guardian 17 Apr. 7/8 The low-growing annual Limnanthes douglasii, known to children as ‘Poached Eggs’..will make a tapestry of lemon and white at the front of a sunny bed. Compounds poached egg flower n. an ornamental annual plant native to California, Limnanthes douglasii (family Limnanthaceae), bearing white flowers with yellow centres; also called meadow foam. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > North American innocent1600 lychnidea1733 swamp lily1737 atamasco lily1743 phlox1754 lychnis1760 painted cup1776 mountain pink1818 phacelia1818 innocence1821 Nemophila1822 clarkia1827 Physostegia1830 bitter root1838 standing cypress1841 false mermaid1845 lion's heart1845 shooting star1856 lewisia1863 satin flower1871 fame-flower1879 baby blue-eyes1887 mayflower1892 agastache1900 obedient plant1900 Pennsylvania anemone1900 rock rose1906 Virginia bluebell1934 parsley1936 poached egg flower1963 poached eggs1971 poached egg plant1977 1963 R. D. Meikle Garden Flowers 135 Poached-egg Flower... The cordate petals are yellow at the base and white at the apex, producing a parti-coloured effect which at once suggests (to the inartistic) the popular name. 1973 Country Life 30 Aug. 565/1 In Britain we call Limnanthes douglasii the poached-egg flower, but in America they use the much more appropriate name of meadow foam. 1995 Nichols Garden Nursery 48/1 (advt.) Poached Egg Flower (Limnanthes douglasii)... A low spreading mass of white and yellow blooms. Known as poached egg flower because of the large yellow center and white petal edging. poached egg plant n. = poached egg flower n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > North American innocent1600 lychnidea1733 swamp lily1737 atamasco lily1743 phlox1754 lychnis1760 painted cup1776 mountain pink1818 phacelia1818 innocence1821 Nemophila1822 clarkia1827 Physostegia1830 bitter root1838 standing cypress1841 false mermaid1845 lion's heart1845 shooting star1856 lewisia1863 satin flower1871 fame-flower1879 baby blue-eyes1887 mayflower1892 agastache1900 obedient plant1900 Pennsylvania anemone1900 rock rose1906 Virginia bluebell1934 parsley1936 poached egg flower1963 poached eggs1971 poached egg plant1977 1977 M. Allan Darwin & His Flowers xv. 261 (caption) Limnanthes douglasii, the ‘Poached Egg Plant’, which Darwin found was self-pollinating. 1978 Woman's Jrnl. Dec. 15/4 Do consider..the poached-egg plant called Limnanthes douglasii, a dwarf annual with ravishing yellow and white flowers. 1997 Mail on Sunday 10 Aug. i. 61/4 I plant the poached egg plant..along the edge of my paths to attract hoverflies, which in turn attack the aphids in the garden. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1450
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