omelette
pronunciation
How to pronounce omelette in British English:
UK ['ɒmlət]
How to pronounce omelette in American English:
US [ˈɑməlɪt, ˈɑmlɪt]
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- Noun:
- beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly
Word Origin
- omelette
- omelette: [17] The omelette seems to have been named for its thinness, like a sheet of metal. The word was borrowed from French omelette, the modern descendant of Old French amelette. This meant literally ‘thin sheet of metal’, and was an alteration, by metathesis (the reversal of sounds) of alumette. This in turn was a variant of alumelle, which arose through the mistaking of la lemelle ‘the blade’ as l’alemelle. And lemelle goes back to Latin lāmella ‘thin sheet of metal’, a diminutive form of lāmina ‘plate, layer’ (from which English gets laminate [17]).=> laminate
Example
- 1. But , as george orwell once famously responded : where 's the omelette ?
- 2. But in the parallel universe of the iphone , hungry hacks can still enjoy an omelette and chips for around a fiver .
- 3. Blum suggests starting the day with a vegetable omelette and strawberries , detoxing regularly with beetroot and carrots , and eating wild alaskan salmon three times a week : " this is your facelift in your fridge ; your internal plastic surgeon . Wild salmon gives contours to your face and body by stimulating muscles . "
- 4. Unless , of course , it was clever enough to know that it was making an omelette .
- 5. It is a magic mushroom omelette , isn 't it ?