Short for 味付け玉子 (aji-tsuke tamago).

taste; flavor

切れ端: scrap, fragment

切れ目, 切目: break, pause, gap, end, rift

scrap of paper

one slice or cut of something / (rare) a one-time sexual liaison, a one-night stand

be cut off, break, snap, burst, collapse / be cut, be injured, become fissured / break off, be interrupted / cut or sever connection with / run out, expire, terminate

sharpness, cutting quality / cloth / piece, bit, strip, slice / (informal, of movement) sharpness and briskness

fragmentary, intermittent

fragments, bits and pieces