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(specifically, of an egg) Being a scrambled egg. You've gotta be kidding me. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:56, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- Looks like an RfD to me. I don't think it is an adjective in that sense, just a past participle of (deprecated template usage) scramble. DCDuring TALK 16:19, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- I cleaned up the definition as an adjective, but have no objection to its removal if definition 3 of scramble#Verb is cleaned up. —Angr 16:30, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- I added transitive/intransitive tags for all senses of scramble#Verb and reworded and usexed sense 3. Is that good enough?
- I'm in no rush to RfD the RfCed sense of scrambled. DCDuring TALK 17:40, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- The only thing that worries me about sense 3 is that it might imply (1) you can scramble something besides eggs (you can't, can you?), and/or (2) scrambling necessarily involves multiple ingredients. It's perfectly possible to scramble eggs, or even one egg, alone. —Angr 18:55, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- I can find reference to "scrambled potatoes" and "scrambled salad". At [[scramble#Verb]] I have given "egg" (not "eggs") a place in the usage label, as well as the usex. To me scrambled eggs involve the relatively thorough blending of white, yolk, and spices, and the less thorough blending of other components, but that may be personal and, in any event, would belong in WikiHow, not in [[scramble]], though possibly in [[scrambled eggs]]. (The photo there helps.) DCDuring TALK 19:43, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- AFAICT, "scrambled potatoes" and "scrambled salad" are usually just "scrambled eggs with potatoes" and "scrambled eggs with salad". On the other hand, I have facetiously referred to Kaiserschmarrn as scrambled pancakes. —Angr 21:17, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- Fond, distant memories of Austria, thank you.I don't know what to do with the definition and would welcome other efforts to improve it. DCDuring TALK 21:27, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- I have tried,
- (of eggs) Beaten and cooked.
- I was going to link to the relevant sense of beaten, but it doesn't have any definitions! There is also the figurative usage in "scrambled brains" which should perhaps also be included. SpinningSpark 23:15, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- I have tried,
- Fond, distant memories of Austria, thank you.I don't know what to do with the definition and would welcome other efforts to improve it. DCDuring TALK 21:27, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- AFAICT, "scrambled potatoes" and "scrambled salad" are usually just "scrambled eggs with potatoes" and "scrambled eggs with salad". On the other hand, I have facetiously referred to Kaiserschmarrn as scrambled pancakes. —Angr 21:17, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- I can find reference to "scrambled potatoes" and "scrambled salad". At [[scramble#Verb]] I have given "egg" (not "eggs") a place in the usage label, as well as the usex. To me scrambled eggs involve the relatively thorough blending of white, yolk, and spices, and the less thorough blending of other components, but that may be personal and, in any event, would belong in WikiHow, not in [[scramble]], though possibly in [[scrambled eggs]]. (The photo there helps.) DCDuring TALK 19:43, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- The only thing that worries me about sense 3 is that it might imply (1) you can scramble something besides eggs (you can't, can you?), and/or (2) scrambling necessarily involves multiple ingredients. It's perfectly possible to scramble eggs, or even one egg, alone. —Angr 18:55, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- I cleaned up the definition as an adjective, but have no objection to its removal if definition 3 of scramble#Verb is cleaned up. —Angr 16:30, 12 September 2012 (UTC)