egg
Forms
- Plural
- eggs
- present (v1)
- egg
- past (v2)
- egged
- past participle (v3)
- egged
- present participle
- egging
- 3rd person singular
- eggs
Definitions
1.An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
- We made a big omelette with three eggs for breakfast.
- I was 5 moneth in France before I saw a boyled or roasted egge.
- The farmer offered me some fresh eggs, but I told him I was allergic to egg.
2.Senses relating to people.
- VVhat you Egge? / Yong fry of Treachery?
- Some big, hard-boiled egg meets up with a pretty face, and bingo! He cracks up and melts.
- Jonathan Lowrie. Royalist. Philanthropist. Classical scholar. And all around excellent egg.
3.Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
- The shell of an egg is easily broken.
4.A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
- The shell of an egg is easily broken.
1.To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
- After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.
2.To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
- The angry demonstrators egged the riot police.
- The students were caught egging the principal’s car as a prank.
- Like I said before in that chapter, after that ultimate egging, Gay-D didn't mention anything about eggs again, but he meekly ask for us to stop egging Xander's door so that he wouldn't get blamed.
3.To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
- "Jemima, Jemima!, ve'll ha'e the viting biled instead of fried." "Ca'n't, marm," replied Jemima, "they be all hegged and crumbed, with their tails in their mouths."
4.To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1615
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English eg, egg, egge (“egg of a domestic or wild fowl; egg of a snake”) [and other forms] (originally Northern England and Northeast Midlands), from Old Norse egg (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”) (by Holtzmann’s law), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), probably from *h₂éwis (“bird”), from *h₂ew- (“to consume”). Doublet of huevo, oeuf, and ovum.