poached

1 3.5

Cooked gently in hot water or other liquid below boiling

adjective
/poʊtʃt/

: pochado

So today I'm going to have avocado, some bacon, and two poached eggs as well.

Rye bread, mashed avocado on top, poached egg and spinach.

Autoplay Next

Examples

I went for the poached eggs on sourdough with tomatoes.
IT'S FRESH POACHED SALMON.

The Rig (2010)
I had some liver which had been poached in milk.
Can I please get the poached eggs but with no sour?
And I'm also having two poached eggs on one piece of toast.
I've got rye bread, poached egg, avocado and bacon.
Rye bread, mashed avocado on top, poached egg and spinach.

Vogue
Served with trouble pearls, poached egg, toasted English muffin and hollandaise sauce.
For breakfast, I ordered two poached eggs with toast and avocado.
The chef recommended the poached salmon served with a lemon butter sauce.

Compounds

poached egg

7 2.3

An egg cooked in hot water without its shell

How Cooked

overdone

1 2.9

hard-boiled

7 1.8

shirred

Specialized

8.1

poached

1 3.5

raw

353 1.0

Surface Forms

poached positive

Morphology

poached = poach (transparent) = poach + ed

A regular adjectival/past-participle formation from the verb 'poach'; meaning 'cooked by poaching' follows directly from the base verb.

Etymology

The word poached comes from the French verb pocher, from poche meaning 'pocket' or 'bag'. Imagine food gently cooked inside a small 'pocket' of hot water—so poached food is soft and cooked in water rather than fried or boiled hard.