Eggrolls

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A crispy roll, typically fried or baked, filled with vegetables, meat, or other ingredients and served as an appetizer or snack
2. An Asian-inspired dish consisting of a thin wrapper rolled around a mixture of savory fillings and cooked until browned and crunchy
3. A popular finger food made by wrapping a flavorful filling in a thin dough sheet, then cooking it to a crisp, often eaten as a starter

Etymology: "Eggrolls" is simply the plural of "eggroll," so the story belongs to the singular. The word is a compound of "egg" and "roll," and it names a dish of a thin wrapper rolled around savory filling and fried until browned and crisp. Because the name combines two plain English nouns, it reads as a description of the dish's form rather than a borrowing from another language, even though the food itself is associated with Asian cooking.