prairie oyster
English
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Noun
prairie oyster (plural prairie oysters)
- A drink consisting of a raw egg with yolk intact, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, salt, and ground black pepper.
- Synonym: prairie cocktail
- 1939, Christopher Isherwood, “Sally Bowles”, in Goodbye to Berlin:
- ‘Would you like a Prairie Oyster?’ She produced glasses, eggs and a bottle of Worcester sauce from the boot-cupboard under the dismantled washstand: ‘I practically live on them.’
- A Rocky Mountain oyster; a bull calf testicle prepared as food.
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