deviled egg
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2.4
- noun
- /ˈdɛvələd ɛɡ/
- US
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huevo relleno
- For the potluck, I decided to prepare classic deviled eggs with a dash of paprika on top.
- plate of deviled eggs
- make deviled eggs
- deviled egg recipe
Oh, my God, Carla, this almost tastes like a deviled egg in itself.
- Oh, my God, Carla, this almost tastes like a deviled egg in itself.
- I don't like motherfuckers that make deviled eggs with relish in them like I love.
Examples
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Deviled eggs for the appetizer, Kahlua turkey and Kahlua yams, fresh cranberry sauce, a simple mushroom stuffing, and salad.
Blog text (17) -
I'd vote for the deviled eggs!
Blog text (28) -
Did you see how many deviled eggs he had for lunch?
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I love a good deviled egg.
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Where are the deviled eggs?
Blog text (28) -
Your deviled eggs remind me of when I was a little girl.
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Please make a plate of deviled eggs.
Fiction book (2002) -
She was standing at the old wooden kitchen table, making deviled eggs.
Fiction book (1993) -
You really can't have a picnic or a barbecue without devilled eggs.
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Eva had packed a lunch of cheese and eel sandwiches, deviled eggs, apple quarters, and a bottle of water.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
A hard-boiled egg cut in half with the yolk mixed with mayonnaise and spices and put back into the white
Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective 'deviled' denotes something seasoned or made piquant, so a learner who knows both words can infer this is a specially seasoned/prepared egg rather than a literal or unrelated meaning. However, the exact culinary procedure (hard‑boiling, mixing the yolk with mayonnaise/seasonings and piping it back) is a conventional recipe detail not fully predictable from the constituents, so the phrase is only partially compositional.
Etymology
Deviled egg comes from an old cooking use of the word deviled, which meant 'spicy' or 'strongly seasoned'. People mixed the spicy yolk back into the egg white, so deviled egg now means a hard-boiled egg filled with a seasoned yolk.