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eggs in moonshine

noun

Etymology

Probably from the name of a dish, referred to in 16th- and 17th-century English cookbooks, made of egg yolks lightly poached in sweetened rosewater. See also moonshine, culinary sense (US). https://web.archive.org/web/20160721010231/http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/eggsinmoonshine.htm

  1. derived from cookbooks

Definitions

  1. A fanciful notion

    A fanciful notion; an unrealistic or ludicrous concept.

    • […] your Majesty knows I think the Horn—and that bit of broken stone over there—and your great King Peter—and your Lion Aslan—are all eggs in moonshine.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for eggs in moonshine. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA