eggdrop soup
- noun
:
sopa de huevo
- He watched as the chef prepared fresh eggdrop soup by pouring eggs into the simmering broth.
Examples
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She ordered a steaming bowl of eggdrop soup to start her meal.
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She loves eggdrop soup with extra scallions.
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At the restaurant, the eggdrop soup was both comforting and flavorful.
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I ordered a bowl of eggdrop soup for lunch.
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He watched as the chef prepared fresh eggdrop soup by pouring eggs into the simmering broth.
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At the restaurant, the eggdrop soup was both comforting and flavorful.
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She ordered a steaming bowl of eggdrop soup to start her meal.
Surface Forms
Morphology
eggdrop + soup
Despite the headword 'eggdrop' being listed as a single unknown token, the compound is clearly compositional: it names a soup made by dropping or pouring beaten eggs into hot broth. A B1 learner who knows 'egg', 'drop' (or the idea of pouring) and 'soup' can readily infer this cooking method and resulting dish, and similar literal naming of soups exists cross-linguistically, supporting full transparency.
Etymology
Eggdrop soup is named for the way it is made: beaten egg is poured so it drops into hot broth and makes thin, soft ribbons. So the name simply describes how the soup looks and how it is made.
