"rolex" meaning in English

See rolex in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈɹəʊlɛks/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: rolexes [plural]
Etymology: Blend of rolled + eggs. The name rolex comes from its method of preparation, with the chapati and the egg omelette rolled together. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|rolled|eggs}} Blend of rolled + eggs Head templates: {{en-noun}} rolex (plural rolexes)
  1. (Uganda) An omelette served inside a chapati. Wikipedia link: Rolex (food) Tags: Uganda Categories (topical): Foods

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for rolex meaning in English (2.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rolled",
        "3": "eggs"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of rolled + eggs",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of rolled + eggs. The name rolex comes from its method of preparation, with the chapati and the egg omelette rolled together.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rolexes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "rolex (plural rolexes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ugandan English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Undetermined quotations with omitted translation",
          "parents": [
            "Quotations with omitted translation",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Foods",
          "orig": "en:Foods",
          "parents": [
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, A Visitor's Guide to Uganda: 2008/2009, Tourguide Publications",
          "text": "Rolex is a chapati roll with fried eggs stuffed in, accompanied with fresh vegetable salad.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 August 20, Peter Kagayi, “The curious case of the rolex”, in Daily Monitor",
          "text": "All this time our rolex has always been a humble meal; a taste best savoured around suburbs by those who, if not out of time to prepare a decent meal, are out of money to do as much. […] To spice up the event, a dish of well-manicured and half-piece (half-piece!) rolexes was ushered in.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Philip Briggs, Uganda",
          "text": "A welcome, if humble, addition to Kampala's edible offerings is the 'rolex'. This is nothing more (or less) than a freshly cooked chapati enhanced by a fresh omelette, chopped onions, green peppers and finely sliced cabbage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Lonely Planet's Ultimate Eats",
          "text": "An omelette fried and rolled up in a chapati (Indian flatbread), rolex is excellent food on the go, and a firm breakfast favourite on the streets of Kampala, where it's often still served in a roll or cone of newspaper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An omelette served inside a chapati."
      ],
      "id": "en-rolex-en-noun-CIyKbQdH",
      "links": [
        [
          "omelette",
          "omelette"
        ],
        [
          "chapati",
          "chapati"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Uganda) An omelette served inside a chapati."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Uganda"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Rolex (food)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹəʊlɛks/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rolex"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rolex"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rolled",
        "3": "eggs"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of rolled + eggs",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of rolled + eggs. The name rolex comes from its method of preparation, with the chapati and the egg omelette rolled together.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rolexes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "rolex (plural rolexes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Ugandan English",
        "Undetermined quotations with omitted translation",
        "Undetermined terms with quotations",
        "en:Foods"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, A Visitor's Guide to Uganda: 2008/2009, Tourguide Publications",
          "text": "Rolex is a chapati roll with fried eggs stuffed in, accompanied with fresh vegetable salad.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 August 20, Peter Kagayi, “The curious case of the rolex”, in Daily Monitor",
          "text": "All this time our rolex has always been a humble meal; a taste best savoured around suburbs by those who, if not out of time to prepare a decent meal, are out of money to do as much. […] To spice up the event, a dish of well-manicured and half-piece (half-piece!) rolexes was ushered in.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Philip Briggs, Uganda",
          "text": "A welcome, if humble, addition to Kampala's edible offerings is the 'rolex'. This is nothing more (or less) than a freshly cooked chapati enhanced by a fresh omelette, chopped onions, green peppers and finely sliced cabbage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Lonely Planet's Ultimate Eats",
          "text": "An omelette fried and rolled up in a chapati (Indian flatbread), rolex is excellent food on the go, and a firm breakfast favourite on the streets of Kampala, where it's often still served in a roll or cone of newspaper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An omelette served inside a chapati."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "omelette",
          "omelette"
        ],
        [
          "chapati",
          "chapati"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Uganda) An omelette served inside a chapati."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Uganda"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Rolex (food)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹəʊlɛks/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rolex"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rolex"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.