yolker
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]yolker (plural yolkers)
- (in combination) An egg with the specified number of yolks.
- 1976, The Poultry Farmer, volume 44:
- One bird of the string, a black Orpington-White Leghorn cross, produced two giant-sized triple yolkers within a period of a few days. The outsize eggs were almost identical in size and shape, and together weighed 330 grams.
- 1992, Bernard W. Peterson, Briny to the blue: memoirs of WWII, page 219:
- Some ships came in with supplies the other day and among the supplies were fresh cold storage eggs. I had two sunny side up with bacon (both my eggs were double yolkers), the first real breakfast I've had since I left the states.