Added 9 October 2026
omelette
/ˈɒmlɪt/ noun
First recorded: 1611 Wiktionary
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about omelette at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- 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.
- 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.
verb
- To make into an omelette.
Origin
First attested in 1611; borrowed from French omelette, see which for further etymology.
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