Sunny side up.

Eggs fried on one side.

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—www.wordorigins.org, Diner Slang.

White wings.

Sunny side up, fried eggs.

—www.wordorigins.org, Diner Slang.

Whitewing.

Egg.

—www.wordorigins.org, Diner Slang.

White cow.

Vanilla milkshake.
—www.hamiltonbeach.com, Soda Jerk Jargon.

Black and white.

A chocolate soda with vanilla ice cream.

—Soda jerk jargon, early 20th century; Marilyn Powell, Ice Cream: The Delicious History, 2006.

Black stick.

A chocolate ice-cream cone.

—Soda jerk jargon, early 20th century; Marilyn Powell, Ice Cream: The Delicious History, 2006.

White bread.

The boss is on his way.

—Soda jerk jargon, early 20th century; Marilyn Powell, Ice Cream: The Delicious History, 2006.

diamond dust

“According to The Handy Weather Answer Book, snow that falls at a temperature near feezing is denser than snow that falls at a higher temperature, and, when it’s extremely cold and the sky is clear, ice crystals may condense and fall as what is known as diamond dust.”

—Marilyn Powell, Ice Cream: The Delicious History, 2006.

water-coloured jewels with sparks of fire

“The girl who had shaken her head and made all the jewels, the topaz, the aquamarine, the water-coloured jewels with sparks of fire in them dance, now bared her brows and with wide-opened eyes drove a straight pathway over the waves.”

—Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931.

a seven-sided flower

“‘There is a red carnation in that vase. A single flower as we sat here waiting, but now a seven-sided flower, many-petalled, red, puce, purple-shaded, stiff with silver-tinted leaves—a whole flower to which every eye brings its own contribution.’”

—Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931.