scrambled eggs
The gold braid sense is by fancied resemblance to the literal sense, with irreverence implied.
scrambled egg (countable and uncountable, plural scrambled eggs)
- (usually in the plural) A dish made by beating and cooking eggs, sometimes mixed with milk, and typically stirred while cooking.
- Coordinate terms: fried egg, omelet, omelette, scromlette
- (usually in the plural, slang) The gold braid worn on the cap of an officer in the armed forces or police.
- Coordinate term: chest candy
- 1971, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather (screenplay, third draft)
- A massive POLICE CAPTAIN, spattered with gold braid and scrambled eggs on his hat, with beefy red face and white hair seems furious.
dish
- Afrikaans: roereier
- Arabic: بَيْض مَخْفُوق m (bayḍ maḵfūq)
- Catalan: remenat d'ous m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 炒蛋 (caau2 daan6-2), 滑蛋 (waat6 daan6-2) (runnier, more liquid consistency than 炒蛋)
- Mandarin: 炒蛋 (zh) (chǎodàn)
- Cornish: oy skramblys m
- Czech: míchaná vejce n pl
- Danish: røræg n or c
- Dutch: roerei (nl) n
- Esperanto: kirlovaĵo
- Estonian: munapuder (et)
- Finnish: munakokkeli (fi)
- French: œufs brouillés (fr) m
- Georgian: ათქვეფილი კვერცხები (atkvepili ḳvercxebi)
- German: Rührei (de) n
- Greek: χτυπητά αβγά n pl (chtypitá avgá)
- Hebrew: בֵּיצָה מְקֻשְׁקֶשֶׁת f (beytza mekushkéshet)
- Hungarian: rántotta (hu), tojásrántotta (hu), habart tojás
- Ido: ovo mixita
- Irish: uibheacha scrofa m pl
- Italian: uova strapazzate
- Japanese: スクランブルエッグ (ja) (sukuranburu eggu), スクランブルドエッグ (sukuranburudo eggu)
- Khmer: ពងមាន់ចៀន (pɔɔŋ moan ciən)
- Korean: 볶은 계란 (bokkeun gyeran)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: olu kultenis
- Lithuanian: kiaušinienė f
- Macedonian: кајгана f (kajgana)
- Manx: oohyn bwoailt f pl
- Norman: oeux sus l'ticl'ye m pl
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: eggerøre m or f
- Nynorsk: eggerøre f
- Persian: خاگینه (fa) (xâgine)
- Plautdietsch: Rearei n
- Polish: jajecznica (pl) f
- Portuguese: ovos mexidos m pl
- Russian: яи́чница-болту́нья f (jaíčnica-boltúnʹja), яи́чница (ru) f (jaíčnica)
- Scottish Gaelic: uighean pronn f pl
- Serbo-Croatian: kajgana (sh) f
- Sicilian: ovu cirusu m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: měšane jajo n
- Spanish: (Spain, Mexico) huevos revueltos m pl, (Colombia) huevos pericos m pl, (El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica) huevos picados m pl
- Swedish: äggröra (sv) c
- Thai: ไข่คน (th) (kài-kon), ไข่กวน (th) (kài-guuan)
- Tibetan: སྒོང་འབྲས (sgong 'bras)
- Turkish: çırpılmış yumurta
- Vilamovian: faonküch
- Welsh: wyau wedi'u sgramblo m pl
- Yiddish: פּרעזשעניצע f (prezhenitse), יאַיִטשניצע f (yaitshnitse), אייערשפּײַז f (eyershpayz)
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slang: gold braid on an officer’s cap in the armed forces