Scotch egg
- noun
- /skɒtʃ ɛɡ/
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huevo escocés
- Liver scotch eggs with a honey curry mustard.
Examples
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About nine o'clock, we went up to the club car, a little snack bar, and bought some Scotch eggs.
Fiction book (1997) -
We moved on to a Scotch egg, which we had never tried before.
Blog text (21) -
But it's called a Scotch egg and it's a boiled egg surrounded in ground questionable pork.
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Egg sandwiches, egg curries, Scotch eggs, eggs and chips, boiled eggs and soldiers.
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At the picnic, we enjoyed a delicious Scotch egg alongside fresh salads and sausages.
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She packed some homemade Scotch eggs for our road trip, making for a perfect snack.
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For a traditional British bite, you can't go wrong with a crispy Scotch egg served with mustard.
Surface Forms
Morphology
‘Scotch’ simply marks a Scottish association and ‘egg’ is literal, so a learner who knows both words can infer it’s an egg related to Scotland or made in a Scottish style. However, the full, conventional meaning (an egg wrapped in sausage, breadcrumbed and fried or baked) is a specific culinary preparation that cannot be predicted from the constituents alone, making the relation only partially transparent.
Etymology
Scotch egg may come from a simple picture: a boiled egg wrapped in seasoned sausage meat, covered in breadcrumbs and fried so it could be carried as a picnic food. That's why the name stuck and today Scotch egg means this portable fried egg snack.
