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omelette.

A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with other foodstuffs, for example cheese or chives.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɒmlɪt/Received-Pronunciation/ˈɒmlət/Received-Pronunciation/ˈɔmlɪt/British, Scotland, Southern, Standard/ˈɔmlət/British, Scotland, Southern, Standard
  1. A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with other foodstuffs, for example cheese or chives.

    countable · uncountable
  2. A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

First attested in 1611; borrowed from French omelette, see which for further etymology.

verb/ˈɒmlɪt/Received-Pronunciation/ˈɒmlət/Received-Pronunciation/ˈɔmlɪt/British, Scotland, Southern, Standard/ˈɔmlət/British, Scotland, Southern, Standard
  1. To make into an omelette.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

First attested in 1611; borrowed from French omelette, see which for further etymology.

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