A boiled egg that has been shelled and then deep-fried.

(informal) Embarrassment or humiliation; damage to one's reputation.

(chiefly Britain, games) A race in which competitors must carry an egg on a small spoon and race to the finish line without dropping the egg.

(logic, philosophy) A supposed paradox concerning whether chickens or chicken eggs existed first. / (logic, philosophy) A question to decide which of two interdependent things happened first.

Alternative spelling of chicken-or-egg question

Synonym of pysanka

plural of Easter egg hunt

A competition, held at Easter, in which an egg is pushed along a lawn.

(US slang, dated) A prosperous dairy farmer (or other wealthy rural citizen), seen as coming into the big city and ostentatiously living it up.

plural of butter-and-egg man