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shirred

8.1

Cooked in a shallow dish in the oven, usually eggs

adjective
/ʃɪrd/

Specialized

: hervido al horno

For breakfast, she served shirred eggs with a sprinkle of fresh herbs.

Examples

The chef recommended trying the shirred eggs for a simple yet elegant meal.
He learned to make shirred eggs as a new way to enjoy his favorite breakfast.
I had a shirred egg.
The chef prepared a delicious shirred egg dish.
For breakfast, she served shirred eggs with a sprinkle of fresh herbs.
The chef recommended trying the shirred eggs for a simple yet elegant meal.
He learned to make shirred eggs as a new way to enjoy his favorite breakfast.

Synonyms

baked

vsshirred

1 1.0

Cooked in an oven, like bread or pastries

is a shallow dish oven method mainly used for eggs

cooked

vsshirred

1 1.0

Food that is heated until ready to eat

is a particular shallow dish oven method specific to eggs

Compounds

shirred egg

Specialized

7.7

An egg baked in a small dish with cream until the white sets and yolk stays soft

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

shirred positive

Morphology

shirred = shirr (transparent) = shirr + ed

Built regularly from the verb 'shirr' with the past-participle/adjectival suffix '-ed', so the adjectival meaning follows directly from the verb.

Etymology

Shirred comes from the cooking verb shirr, which means 'to bake in a shallow dish', so shirred eggs are simply eggs 'baked' in the oven in a small dish rather than fried or poached.