An egg which has been cooked in the shell in boiling water. It can be hard-boiled or soft-boiled.

A dish made primarily of chopped hard-boiled eggs and mayonnaise, often including other ingredients such as celery or mustard; it is frequently used as a sandwich spread.

The clear part of an egg surrounding the yolk, which turns white when cooked or beaten.

(usually in the plural) A dish made by beating and cooking eggs, sometimes mixed with milk. / (slang) The gold braid worn on the cap of an officer in the armed forces etc.

The yellow central part of a chicken’s (or other bird’s) egg.

To overembellish.

An egg that has been shallow-fried on one or both sides. / (golf, slang) A golf ball half-buried in sand in a bunker. / (slang, usually in the plural) A small female breast.

(idiomatic) A thing which has good and bad parts, but is overall spoilt by the bad.

(of a bird or other egg-creating animal) To produce an egg. / (idiomatic, of a person, organization, etc.) To produce a failure or flop; to do something which is unsuccessful.

Alternative form of pace egg