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shirring

shirring

9.8
A dish of eggs baked in a shallow pan with cream or butter
  • noun
  • /ˈʃɪrɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : huevo al horno
  • The jacket's shirring echoed the shirring of the neckline.

Examples

  • The chef prepared a delicious shirring by baking eggs with cream in a shallow dish.

  • The jacket's shirring echoed the shirring of the neckline.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • This was going to be a shirring match.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • There is a faint shirring along the top of her lip.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • For breakfast, he enjoyed a savory shirring made with fresh herbs and melted cheese.

  • She learned to make a classic shirring with eggs, butter, and a sprinkle of paprika.

How Cooked

boiling
1 1.0
shirring
  • Specialized
9.8
poaching
4 4.1

Surface Forms

shirring singular
shirring plural

Morphology

shirring = shirr (transparent) = shirr + ing

Formed as the gerund/nominalization of the verb 'shirr' (shirr + -ing), so the method/action meaning is directly derived from the base verb.

Etymology

The word shirring can be remembered by thinking of the sewing word shirr, which means 'to gather' cloth into small folds; imagine the egg, cream and butter setting and slightly 'gathered' in a small shallow dish. So, shirring is the simple baking method of cooking eggs in a shallow dish until they set.