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egg-cup|ˈɛgkʌp|
A cup-shaped vessel to hold an egg. Also transf. Hence ˈeggcupful (usually egg-cupful), as much as will fill an egg-cup.
1773[see egg-basket (egg n. 6 a)]. 1837Dickens Pickw. xvi. 160 There's nothin' so refreshin' as sleep, Sir, as the servant-girl said afore she drank the egg-cup-full o' laudanum. 1848H. R. Forster Stowe Catal. 117, 6 egg-cups. 1870F. Wilson Ch. Lindisf. 108 The font..is of an egg-cup form. 1871City-Road Mag. I. 263 We drank all but boiling coffee at half a piastre an egg-cupful. 1905H. G. Wells Kipps i. v. 88 An egg-cupful of brandy. 1936G. Pollett Song for Sixpence x. 82 But the oak-trees shower their ‘egg-cups’ everywhere. 1962E. O'Brien Lonely Girl xix. 237 Egg-cupfuls of Joanna's home-made Advocaat. 1969E. H. Pinto Treen 73/2 The early Victorian revolving egg cup stand..is of mahogany, with ebony egg cups. |