deviled egg

A hard-boiled chicken egg that has been shelled, cut in half, and filled with a paste made from the yolk mixed with other ingredients such as mayonnaise, mustard, or spices.

Noun

  1. A hard-boiled chicken egg that has been shelled, cut in half, and filled with a paste made from the yolk mixed with other ingredients such as mayonnaise, mustard, or spices.

Origin

From associating hot or spicy food with the Devil; see devil (verb); compare deviled ham, deviled crab, devilled sausages.

Forms

deviled eggs devilled egg