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eggy

eggy

2 2.8
Having a strong egg taste, smell, or texture often because it contains many eggs
  • adjective
  • /ˈɛɡi/
: huevoso
  • And my boys, they don't love eating like omelette, but they really like eating these, like eggy pancakes.
  • rich and eggy

And this one was eggy and dry in the throat.

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Examples

  • It's like this moist, almost custardy cake texture that's sweet and eggy and really good.

  • It was eggy, very eggy, eggy bread, very cold.

  • And this one was eggy and dry in the throat.

    Harvard University

  • So let me open them up, show you the eggy goodness.

  • And then we've got what is this eggy, eggy water?

  • The texture just freaks me out, how thick and eggy it is.

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  • Bottom line: It's eggy.

    Green Mansions (1959)

  • But, you know, if that same eggy smell were magnified by a hundredfold, then you wouldn't be happy.

  • The cake had a light, eggy flavor that made it delicious.

  • She loves her pasta with a rich, eggy sauce that contrasts with the spices.

Synonyms

yolky
vseggy
1 4.0

Having the deep yellow color of the inside of an egg

focuses on flavor, smell, or texture rather than color or center
egg-filled
vseggy
1 2.1

Having eggs inside

describes a taste, smell, or texture similar to those shelled food units

How Eggy

egg-filled
1 2.1
eggy
2 2.8

Surface Forms

eggy positive

Morphology

eggy = egg (transparent) = egg + y

The adjective is formed by the productive suffix '-y' meaning 'having the quality of' the noun 'egg', so the meaning is directly derivable.

Etymology

Eggy comes from the simple word egg plus the ending -y, which means 'full of' or 'having the quality of', just like cheesy means 'full of cheese', so eggy describes food that tastes, smells, or contains a lot of eggs.