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sunny-side up
[ suhn-ee-sahyd ]
adjective
- (of an egg) fried without breaking the yolk or being turned over, with the yolk remaining visible and somewhat liquid inside.
sunny-side up
adjective
- (of eggs) fried on one side only
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sunny-side up1
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Example Sentences
At breakfast, I sometimes use it right away to fry hash browns or cook a sunny-side up egg.
I kept thinking how I'd have them done, shipwrecked, two on a raft or sunny side up, when who should come along but Bill.
Sunny side up; or with a veil of brown drawn over their beautiful faces, Frankie?
That's the way I always uster take mine,' he says, 'before I quit eating—fried with the sunny side up.'
One man wants his eggs sunny side up; another is strong for them hard-boiled.
The egg, sunny side up, gave it its shining name a couple of centuries ago.
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