eggn.
/ɛɡ/, U.S. /ɛɡ/ 1.
a. The (more or less) spheroidal body produced by the female of birds and other animal species, and containing the germ of a new individual, enclosed within a shell or firm membrane. addle egg, wind egg: see those words.
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the world > animals > birds > egg > [noun]
egga1000
bird's egg1565
the world > food and drink > food > eggs > [noun]
egga1000
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > egg
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a1000 Boeth. Metr. xx. 169 On æge bið gioleca on middan.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 156 Wiþ þon þe hær ne weaxe æmettan ægru genim.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 36 Kimeð þe kaue..& reaueð hire hire eairen [a1250 Nero eiren].
c1300 K. Alis. 568 A faukon..An ay he laide..That feol the kyng Phelip nygh.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 343 Many other briddes Hudden..her egges..In mareys.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. lix. 5 The eiren of edderes thei to-breeken.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xxviii. 106 Anoþere birde..laborithe..to infecte hir nest or hir eyren.
c1450 Two Cookery-bks. (1888) 82 And then make faire bater of rawe yolkes of eron.
1486 Bk. St. Albans A ij a To speke of hawkis fro an eeg to thei be habull to be takene.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxix. 13 The Estrich..when he hath layed his egges vpon the grounde, he bredeth them in the dust.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 32 Thinke him as a Serpents egge . View more context for this quotation
1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 48 Improperly that is an egg out of the whole whereof a living creature is bred, as the eggs of Spiders, Ants, Flies.
1747 W. Gould Acct. Eng. Ants 32 A Queen..in a Box..will in a few Days deposit some Eggs, unless she had laid before you took her.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 339 The numerous brood of [turtles'] eggs are..buried in the warm sands of the shore.
1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. 95 The eggs of the Slug, when dried up by the sun or by artificial heat..are found not to have lost their fertility.
b. spec. An egg of a domestic fowl as an article of food.
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the world > food and drink > food > eggs > [noun] > hen's egg
egg805
hen eggeOE
cockneyc1390
hen fruit1844
cackle-berry1916
805–31 Chart. Oswulf in Sweet Old Eng. Texts 444 gif hit ðonne festendæg sie, selle mon unege cæsu and fisces and butran and ægera.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 103 Smire mid æges geolcan.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 12 gif he bit æg [c 1160 Hatton aig] segst þu ræcð he him scorpionem.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8334 Vor aney tueie ssillinges wel vawc þo hii boȝte.
c1300 K. Alis. 4719 Men to heom threowe drit and donge, With foule ayren.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. v. 49 Thidre bryngen Wommen..here Eyren of Hennes, of Gees & of Dokes.
c1400 Rowland & O. 222 The lawes of Cristyante ne are noghte worthe ane aye.
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 582 Wol thou..eyron grete thai legge?
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos Prol. What sholde a man in thyse dayes now wryte, egges or eyren, certaynly it is harde to playse every man.
?1529 Proper Dyaloge Gentillman & Husbandman sig. A vv So is it not worthe a rotten aye.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. i. 59 They are vp already, and cal for Egges and butter. View more context for this quotation
1609 W. B. tr. Philosophers Banquet i. xxiv. f. 24 Goose egs do much loath vs, because of their bad smell.
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. ii. 148 Constrain'd to..keep Lent with Bisket and hard Eggs only.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 255 Eggs are perhaps the..most nourishing..of all animal Food.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xv. 234 Give them to this fellow; he'll put them down as if they were eggs, now.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. i. iv. 68 Was it..worth..discussion..whether an egg laid on a festival might or might not be eaten?
2. figurative.
a. That which contains the germ of anything; generally in a bad sense. Also in phrase, to crush in the egg.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source, seed, or germ > that which contains
egg1645
1645 J. Tombes Anthropolatria 8 This was the egge out of which their contentions were hatched.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV cccxlviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 88 Soe Power of Warre From the first Egge of Libertie, out-Creepes A fatall Serpent.
1689 Apol. Failures G. Walker's Acct. Siege of Derry 91 The Rebellion..had not been either prevented or crush'd in the Egg.
b. Applied contemptuously to a young person.
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the world > people > person > young person > [noun]
youngeOE
younglingOE
girlc1300
youtha1325
young onec1384
birdc1405
young person1438
young blood1557
primrosea1568
slip1582
juvenal1598
quat1607
airling1611
egga1616
saplinga1616
chita1657
a slip of a girla1660
juvenile1733
young adult1762
boots1806
snip1838
spring chicken1857
yob1859
kid1884
chiseller1922
juvenile adult1926
YA1974
yoof1986
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. ii. 84 What you Egge? Yong fry of Treachery.
1835 E. Elliott Poems III. 230 Who would suspect a boy? Who hir'd thee? Egg!
3.
a. Applied to anything that resembles an egg in shape or appearance. So †to turn up the eggs (i.e. the whites) of one's eyes.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity > spheroidicity > spheroid > object
acornc1388
almonda1400
bean1561
egg1589
ovala1868
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xi. 76 The egge or figure ouall.
a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 84 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) A Puritan poacht, That used to turne up the egg's of his eyes.
?a1645 A. Stafford Just Apol. in Life Blessed Virgin (1860) p. xxxi The eggs of their eies are at their highest elevation.
a1691 R. Boyle Wks. (1772) I. 44 There was taken a great glass-bubble with a long neck, such as chemists are wont to call a philosophical egg.
b. In full egg coal: see quots. Originally U.S.
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1855 Santa Barbara (Calif.) Gaz. 22 Nov. 1/5 The attempt to make omelets out of ‘egg’ coal has been abandoned.
1880 Bradstreet's 2 Oct. 5/4 The sizes used are ‘lump’, ‘steamboat’, ‘broken’, and ‘pea’; while for family use the sizes are ‘egg’, ‘stove’ and ‘nut’.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 130 Egg-Coal, Pennsylvania.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 501/2 The market sizes being designated egg, stove, chestnut, pea, and buckwheat.
1900 Coal & Metal Miners' Pocketbk. (ed. 6) 434 Egg passes over 2″ mesh, and through 2¾″ mesh.
1900 Coal & Metal Miners' Pocketbk. (ed. 6) 585 Egg coal, anthracite coal that will pass through a 2¾″ square mesh and over a 2″ square mesh.
1924 A. T. Shurick Coal Industry 144 The broken coal..is again screened into egg, stove, and nut coal.
1970 F. McKenna Gloss. Railwaymen's Talk 35 Eggs, ovoid briquettes, made of coal dust and cement dust, used during coal shortage.
c. Cricket. = duck's egg n. b.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > running > no score by batsman
spectacles1835
egg1861
nought1862
pair1862
duck's egg1863
round O1863
duck1868
blob1889
balloon1906
1861 Bell's Life in London 25 Aug. (Suppl.) 2/1 Dowson ‘laid an egg’; R. D. Walker made 10 in an hour and a quarter.
1898 K. S. Ranjitsinhji With Stoddart's Team x. 195 Gregory..was yorked first ball... Iredale also secured an ‘egg’.
d. A bomb, a mine. slang.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb
bomb1684
egg1917
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > land-mine
petard1566
powder minea1639
fougade1643
bomb-chest1704
caisson1704
globe of compression1771
torpedo1786
fougasse1832
stifler1836
landmine1875
observation mine1886
egg1917
1917 War Illustr. 13 Jan. 524/2 That seaplane..having some explosive ‘eggs’ to drop.
1918 E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter 335 Eggs, bombs weighing twenty pounds and upward filled with high explosives and ‘laid’ in Hunland.
1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 44 Eggs, submarine mines, a war-time phrase.
1939 War Illustr. 9 Dec. 399/1 The Germans are thought to be using relays of U-boats. Even the smallest of these can carry up to a dozen ‘eggs’... A fast surface layer can put down more than 200 mines ‘at a sitting’.
1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) i. 18 But we laid our eggs Neatly in their nest.
e. An egg-shaped tea-infuser.
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1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping xvi She watched him pour the water into the teapot on to the silver egg full of the fragrant leaves.
4.
a. Phrases: a bad egg (colloquial): a person or a scheme that disappoints expectation. Similarly good egg (slang): (a) an excellent person or object; (b) an exclamation of enthusiastic approbation; also with other preceding adjectives, esp. tough. †egg and bird: in youth and maturity, from beginning to end, first and last. to break the egg in anybody's pocket: to spoil his plan. †to take eggs for money: to be put off with something worthless. to have eggs on the spit: to have business in hand. to tread upon eggs: to walk warily, as on delicate ground. †(to be) with egg: (to be) ready to lay; also figurative. †to come in with five eggs: to break in fussily with an idle story; more fully, five eggs a penny, and four of them addle. to have (get, etc.) egg on one's face: to be made to look foolish; to be embarrassed or humiliated by the turn of events.
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > have business in hand
to have tow on one's rock (distaff)c1405
to have eggs on the spit1542
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > expressions of commendation [interjection]
well-donea1500
macte1573
hear- him1727
hear1768
that's your sort1792
top marks1829
that's the spirit1853
good for you (also him, her, etc.)1855
good man1887
good egg1903
attaboy1909
to go up (also down) one1909
right on1911
hotcha1931
thataboy1936
hubba-hubba1944
chapeau1976
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing
carbunclea1350
swanc1386
phoenixc1400
diamondc1440
broocha1464
surmounterc1500
sovereign?a1513
primrose peerless1523
superlative1577
transcendent1593
Arabian birda1616
crack1637
first rate1681
peach1710
phoenicle1711
admiration1717
spanker1751
first-raterc1760
no slouch of1767
nailer1806
tip-topper1822
ripper1825
ripstaver1828
apotheosis1832
clinker1836
clipper1836
bird1839
keener1839
ripsnorter1840
beater1845
firecracker1845
pumpkin1845
screamer1846
stunner1847
bottler1855
beaut1866
bobby-dazzler1866
one out of the box1867
stem-winder1875
corker1877
trimmer1878
hot stuff1884
daisy1886
jim-dandy1887
cracker1891
jim-hickey1895
peacherino1896
pippin1897
alpha plus1898
peacherine1900
pip1900
humdinger1905
bosker1906
hummer1907
good egg1914
superstar1914
the berries1918
bee's knee1923
the cat's whiskers1923
smash1923
smash hit1923
brahma1925
dilly1935
piss-cutter1935
killer1937
killer-diller1938
a hard act to follow1942
peacheroo1942
bitch1946
brammerc1950
hot shit1960
Tiffany1973
bollocks1981
the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > be ashamed [verb (intransitive)] > be embarrassed
to look ateOE
not to know which way (also where) to look1566
to sink through the floor1839
to have (get, etc.) egg on one's face1964
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 272 Persones comyng in with their fiue egges, how that Sylla had geuen ouer his office of Dictature.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Evi An other cummeth in wyth hys v. egges.
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. iii. sig. G3 I haue egges on the spit; I cannot go yet, sir. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 163 Mine honest Friend, Will you take Egges for Money? View more context for this quotation
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. i. 130 Contented to take Eggs (as it were) for their money.
1711 W. King et al. Vindic. Sacheverell sig. Aiv I have been such a profligate Liver, Egg, and Bird.
1733 ‘P. Drake’ Grotto (title page) Apollo's..Grotto makes them [Witts] all with egg.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) 324 This very circumstance..broke the egg..in the Pockets of the Whigs.
1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 127 This gave him Occasion..to find if any Slip had been made (for he all along trod upon Eggs).
1747 W. Gould Acct. Eng. Ants 57 Very like that of a Female Bee, Wasp, or Queen Ant, when not with Egg.
1855 ‘P. Paxton’ Capt. Priest 319 In the language of his class, the Perfect Bird generally turns out to be ‘a bad egg’.
1864 Athenæum 559/1 ‘A bad egg’,..a fellow who had not proved to be as good as his promise.
1884 W. Black Judith Shakespeare xiii, in Harper's Mag. May 954/2 I have other eggs on the spit.
1903 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 138 ‘Us'll find they ships!’..‘Good egg!’ quoth Moorshed.
1910 J. Galsworthy Justice 1 A real bad egg.
1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. x. 711 It doesn't look a hundred quid to a tanner on his blue. Bad luck. He's a very good egg.
1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. xii. 739 Oxford was divided into Bad Men and Good Eggs.
1915 D. O. Barnett Let. in In Happy Memory 56 We are going to do this regularly, and I think it is a very good egg.
1915 P. G. Wodehouse Something Fresh x. §3 ‘She isn't going to sue me for breach?’ ‘She never had any intention of doing so.’ The Hon. Frederick sank back on the pillows. ‘Good egg!’ he said with fervour.
1920 J. Galsworthy In Chancery i. xii. 100 He was a rotten egg.
1922 P. G. Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert x. 256 ‘Well?’ we said anxiously. ‘I like it,’ said the editor. ‘Good egg!’ we murmured.
1929 S. Aumonier Ups & Downs 418 Hullo, Pan! Good egg!
1930 E. H. Lavine Third Degree (1931) iii. 30 Occasionally, a really tough egg is trained to be a killer.
1938 P. G. Wodehouse Summer Moonshine i. 18 She's a tough egg.
1964 Sat. Night (Toronto) July 17/1 The move left many critics with egg on their faces.
1972 Times 19 Feb. 7/1 There is something reassuringly changeless about the capacity of the highest military authorities for getting egg on their faces.
1977 Times Educ. Suppl. 21 Oct. 11/2 The most immediate need is to decide why the physical measurements of the ages of the East African rocks appear to suggest such different patterns of hominid evolution from that provided by the evolution of the wild pig. In the process, many people will be discovered to have egg on their faces.
1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl x. 186 I'm just stuck there, am I, with egg on my face.
1984 Listener 15 Mar. 16/3 ‘Canadian Far East Trade Corporation’, ‘H and H Enterprises’ and ‘CMI Investments’ led the trustee to conclude that the CIA must have ‘egg on its face’ for associating with a swindler.
1985 Times 3 Jan. 13/1 BAT..succeeded in constantly getting egg on its face.
b. In many proverbial phrases of obvious meaning; also, as sure as eggs is eggs; hence, as safe as eggs (in same sense). teach your grandmother to suck eggs: said to those who presume to offer advice to others who are more experienced. to have all your eggs in one basket: to risk all one's property on a single venture; also to put (†venture) all one's eggs in one basket, etc.
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1592 G. Babington Certaine Comfortable Notes Genesis (xvi.) f. 60 To bee woone with the Egg, and lost with the shell, is a great inconstancie.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. i. 22 Thy head is as full of quarelles, as an egge is full of meate. View more context for this quotation
1606 L. Bryskett Disc. Ciuill Life 5 Critiques that spend their eyes to find a haire vpon an egge.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 132 We are Almost as like as Egges . View more context for this quotation
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote III. vii The Hen lays as well upon one Egg as many.
a1633 G. Herbert Jacula Prudentum (1651) 291 He that steals an egg, will steal an ox.
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. ii. §160. 117 They are as like your own, as an egge to an egge.
1662 G. Torriano 2nd Alphabet Proverbial Phrases 125/2 To put all ones Eggs in a Paniard, viz. to hazard all in one bottom.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew As sure as Eggs be Eggs.
1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 348 You would have me teach my Grandame to suck Eggs.
1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. cxxiii. 344 (heading) A Mouse that has but one Hole, is soon Catch'd: or, Don't venture all your Eggs in One Basket.
1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough iii. iv As full of good-nature as an egg's full of meat.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. vi. 344 I shall come out bottom of the form, as sure as eggs is eggs.
1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant III. iv. 114 We've got the Derby and Leger this next year as safe as eggs.
1874 G. J. Whyte-Melville Uncle John III. xxvii. 140 ‘Annie, my own darling, may I carry your basket all my life?’ ‘If you'll put all your eggs in it, yes,’ answered Annie boldly.
1925 D. H. Lawrence Refl. Death Porcupine 179 It is a pity that we have insisted on putting all our eggs in one basket: calling love the basket, and ourselves the eggs.
1955 Times 3 May 3/6 An area which had all its eggs in one basket.
1969 Times 5 Nov. 23/3 The earl is evidently feeling a little uncomfortable that all his family eggs are in one basket.
c. old egg: a familiar form of address = old chap, old fellow, old sport.
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the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun] > familiar form of address
mon amic1425
matec1500
boy1532
old lad1594
old boy1602
captaina1616
mon cher1673
old chap1823
old man1828
ou maat1838
boysie1846
old top1856
boetie1867
bra1869
cocker1888
mon vieux1888
face1891
yessir1892
George1903
old sport1905
old bean1917
segotia1917
babe1918
bro1918
tovarish1918
old egg1919
midear1921
old (tin of) fruit1923
sport1923
mush1936
cowboy1961
coz1961
wack1963
yaar1963
John1982
1919 Punch 5 Mar. 190/2 Cheerio, old egg.
1927 ‘A. Armstrong’ Patrick Engaged ix. §3 ‘You'd be arrested..and spoil the whole show,’ replied Patrick tersely. ‘Sorry, old egg, sorry!’
Compounds
C1. In Plant-names: eggs and bacon, eggs and butter, eggs and collops; popular names for several plants, esp. Linaria vulgaris, the Field Snap-dragon or Toad-flax.
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1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Eggs and Bacon. From the two shades of yellow in the flower. 1 Linaria vulgaris, Mill.; 2 Lotus corniculatus. Eggs and Butter, Linaria vulgaris, Mill. Eggs and Collops, Linaria vulgaris, Mill.; 2 Ranunculus acris, Latin.
C2. General combinations.
a. Attributive.
egg-ball n.
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1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. x. 196 Egg Balls For Soups And Made Dishes.
egg-basket n.
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1773 J. Wedgwood Let. 21 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 156 Egg Baskets; Egg Cups, with covers and without.
1867 G. W. Harris Sut Lovingood 132 He wer histin aig-baskets.
egg-coloration n.
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1911 J. A. Thomson Biol. Seasons ii. 177 A stereotyped kind of egg-coloration.
egg-dish n.
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1869 Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. (rev. ed.) xxxv. 858 Silver or plated egg-dishes..are now very much used.
egg-mass n.
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1889 M. E. Bamford Up & down Brooks 45 The bright-yellow egg-mass.
1921 Brit. Museum Return 119 An exceedingly fine egg-mass of Natica sp. from Scotia Bay, South Orkneys.
1956 Nature 10 Mar. 489/2 Fifteen days after sowing, second-generation larvæ were hatching within the egg-masses.
egg-pie n.
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a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. G4 When egge-pies growes on apple-trees, then will thy gray mare prooue a bag-piper.
1634 J. Taylor Great Eater of Kent 12 It is welcome, whether it bee sawsedge or custard or egge-pye.
egg-sauce n.
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c1685 in Duke of Buckingham's Wks. (1705) II. 48 She..neatly dish'd it up with Egg-sauce.
1828 T. B. Macaulay Hallam's Constit. Hist. in Edinb. Rev. Sept. 141 Judgments, only to be averted by salt fish and egg-sauce.
egg-season n.
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1953 N. Tinbergen Herring Gull's World x. 94 Once I saw the results of repeated raids by a fox in the egg-season.
egg-spoon n.
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1886 E. C. Dawson Life Bp. Hannington (1887) viii. 107 The egg hunter arms himself with an instrument called an egg-spoon, like a tiny landing-net, at the end of a long, light rod.
egg-stage n.
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1883 F. Day Indian Fish 26 They have their enemies in the egg stage.. and during their maturity.
egg-stall n.
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1828 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. III. vi. 108 Those who kept egg-stalls and fish-stalls cursed him and removed them.
egg-state n.
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1747 W. Gould Acct. Eng. Ants 38 The Continuance of Ants in the Egg State is somewhat precarious.
egg-tongs n.
egg-yolk n. (also egg-yelk)
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1868 Q. Rev. 354 These ‘colifichets’ are made principally of the egg-yelk.
b.
(a) Objective.
egg-collecting n.
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1936 Discovery Feb. 56/2 What branch of science can egg collecting now advance?
egg-eating n.
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1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney I. iii. 85 Egg-eating and prawn-picking are not delicate performances.
1882 A. Hepburn in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 9 No. 3. 505 The egg-eating birds kept the wood pigeon within very moderate bounds.
egg-hunting n.
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1855 Knickerbocker 46 223 As egg-hunting is viewed by our country people as a species of ‘picnicking’, lovers and their mistresses..are the principal actors in these excursions.
egg-laying n.
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1676 T. Shadwell Virtuoso iii. 47 All Oviperous or Egg-laying Creatures.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxv. 214 Like a goose in the agonies of egg-laying.
(b)
egg-gatherer n.
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1855 Knickerbocker 46 223 Upon the approach of the egg-gatherers, with little or no dissenting clamor, they rise up in one vast, dangling-legged body.
1936 Discovery Jan. 12/1 Saddlebags are strapped to horses, and egg-gatherers fill these bags in no time.
egg-hunter n.
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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxvi. 265 Our egg-hunters found it difficult to keep their feet.
egg-monger n.
egg-robber n.
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1953 N. Tinbergen Herring Gull's World xvi. 133 Potential egg-robbers.
(c) Appliances and implements used for or in boiling, poaching, etc., eggs. Also egg-beater n.
egg-boiler n.
egg-detector n.
egg-poacher n.
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1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 110/2 Egg Poachers.
egg-slicer n.
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1951 Festival of Brit.: Catal. Exhibits: South Bank Exhib. (H.M.S.O.) 63/1 ‘Skyline’ Egg Slicer.
egg-tester n.
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1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 25/1 Microscopes, Egg Testers, Lamps, etc.
c. Similative.
(a)
egg-bald adj.
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1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold v. i. 127 But If thou [the monk] blurt thy curse among our folk..I may give that egg-bald head The tap that silences.
egg-ended adj.
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1859 W. J. M. Rankine Man. Steam Engine §63 The ends of ‘egg-ended’ cylindrical boilers.
egg-eyed adj.
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1875 L. S. Floyer Plain Needlework 10 Abel Morrell's ‘egg-eyed’ needles.
egg-faced adj.
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1921 Glasgow Herald 26 Sept. 6 He will find the egg-faced man there.
egg-like adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > spherical or globular > spheroidal > oval, ovoid, or ellipsoidal
oval1585
egg-like1599
ovalish1684
oviform1684
subovate1752
egg-shaped1767
almond-shapeda1771
subovated1773
ovicular1774
ovate1775
ovoid1776
egg-oblong1796
subovoid1819
ovaliform1826
ovoidal1828
ellipsoidal1831
amygdaloid1835
ooidal1836
oliviform1857
ovoid-shaped1860
ellipsoid1861
ovaloid1890
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 18 Egg-like [marginal gloss or oval].
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 742/2 The bones of the cranium..concur in the production of an egg-like cavity.
1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 50 Some of them have anything but an egg-like aspect.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ii. 35 A small oval face..with an egg-like line of cheek and chin.
egg-oblong adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > spherical or globular > spheroidal > oval, ovoid, or ellipsoidal
oval1585
egg-like1599
ovalish1684
oviform1684
subovate1752
egg-shaped1767
almond-shapeda1771
subovated1773
ovicular1774
ovate1775
ovoid1776
egg-oblong1796
subovoid1819
ovaliform1826
ovoidal1828
ellipsoidal1831
amygdaloid1835
ooidal1836
oliviform1857
ovoid-shaped1860
ellipsoid1861
ovaloid1890
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 155 Seed single, egg-oblong.
egg-shaped adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > spherical or globular > spheroidal > oval, ovoid, or ellipsoidal
oval1585
egg-like1599
ovalish1684
oviform1684
subovate1752
egg-shaped1767
almond-shapeda1771
subovated1773
ovicular1774
ovate1775
ovoid1776
egg-oblong1796
subovoid1819
ovaliform1826
ovoidal1828
ellipsoidal1831
amygdaloid1835
ooidal1836
oliviform1857
ovoid-shaped1860
ellipsoid1861
ovaloid1890
1767 H. Baker in Philos. Trans. 1766 (Royal Soc.) 56 186 The seeds egg-shaped, one or two strongly adhering to the calyx.
1854 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. Brit. India (ed. 3) 370 Ceylon is egg-shaped.
(b)
egg-fashion adj.
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1702 London Gaz. No. 3819/8 Three Diamonds..two of them pretty large cut Egg-fashion.
C3. Special combinations. † egg-fraise n. Obsolete a pancake.† egg-fry n. Obsolete zoosperms, semen of the male; cf. fry n.1† egg-nest n. Obsolete = egg-case n.† egg-pea n. Obsolete an old variety of garden pea. † egg-starch adj. Obsolete ?. † egg-wife n. Obsolete a woman who offers eggs for sale.
egg albumin n. albumin obtained from the white of an egg, esp. ovalbumin; also = albumen n. 1.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > ovum or ootid > white or albumen
whiteeOE
albuginousness1599
albumen1599
ovalbumin1835
albumin1850
egg albumin1871
ovoalbumin1873
egg white1898
1871 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 24 572 Some properties of Egg Albumin.
1919 J. B. Cohen Class-bk. Chem. II. 94 Of the albumins, egg- and serum-albumin are the most important.
1956 Nature 18 Feb. 330/1 The cells were smeared on microscopical slides coated with egg-albumin or human serum.
egg and anchor n. varieties of the echinus n., produced by the alternation of vertical with egg-shaped ornaments: see echinus n. 4 and quots. there given.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Egg The Profile, or Contour of the Echinus, is enrich'd with Eggs and Anchors, alternately placed.
egg and dart n. see egg and anchor n.
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1871 M. E. Braddon Lovels xxxii. 257 A house glorified within by egg-and-dart mouldings.
egg and tongue n. (also egg and tongue mouldings) see egg and anchor n.
egg-and-spoon race n. a foot race during which the competitors are required to carry an egg in a spoon (see also quot. 1894).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > other foot races
smock-race1707
broose1786
smock-racing1790
sack running1801
torch-race1812
torch-course1839
sack race1859
potato race1865
obstacle race1869
three-legged race1876
mud run1888
egg-and-spoon race1894
cross-country1905
obstacle course1942
runathon1943
pancake race1951
fun run1960
fun running1966
1894 Daily News 8 Sept. 5/3 The gentlemen had a turn in the egg-and-spoon race, in which the competitors had to punt with one hand and balance an egg on a spoon with the other.
1936 Punch 12 Aug. 187 (caption) I would like you to meet Mr. Scooter, the winner of our Parents' Egg-and-Spoon race.
egg-apparatus n. Botany the group of three cells at the micropylar end of the embryo-sac in seed plants, only one of which is fertile.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 434/2 Of the three energids of the egg-apparatus, one alone is normally functional as the egg.
egg-apple n. the fruit of the Eggplant ( Solanum melongena).
egg-assorter n. (see quot.)
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1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 774/1 Egg-assorter, a device by which eggs are assorted according to quality; being so placed that a strong light is brought upon them.
egg-bag n. (a) the ovary; (b) = egg-case n.
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1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 253 From this ovary, or egg-bag, as it is vulgarly called, the fish's eggs drop one by one into the womb.
1822 Edinb. Rev. 37 127 Thus also spiders carry out about their nest or egg-bag.
egg-barrel n. a barrel-like egg.
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1889 M. E. Bamford Up & Down Brooks 132 The egg-barrels of the Harlequin Cabbage-bug.
egg-binding n. the condition or disease of a fowl that is egg-bound.
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1882 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 15 Feb. 175 My queries as to egg-binding..my hen budgerigar died egg-bound.
egg-bird n. a species of tern ( Hydrochelidon fuliginosum) common in the West Indies, where its eggs are collected for use as food.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > other types of tern
noddya1577
egg-bird1697
white bird1697
sheep's-head gull1808
moustache tern1837
Inca tern1887
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 54 Small grey Fowls, no bigger than a Black-bird; yet lay Eggs bigger than a Magpy's: and they are therefore by Privateers called Egg-birds.
1790 Coll. Voy. round World IV. iv. 1362 Upon the shore, were..some egg birds.
egg-born adj. produced from an egg.
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1627 M. Drayton Elegies in Battaile Agincourt 203 Leda's brood, Ioue's egge-borne issue smile vpon the flood.
egg-bound adj. said of fowls suffering from weakness or disease, so that they are unable to expel their eggs.
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1882Egg-bound [see egg-binding n.].
egg-bread n. U.S. bread made of the meal of Indian corn, eggs, etc.
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1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine vii. 118 Egg-bread which Southern cooks know so well how to make.
1862 in Southern Hist. Soc. Papers (1884) XII. 26 The table was spread with rich egg-bread, fried ham, and pure coffee.
1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter ii. 29 The Missouri supper of fried chicken, egg-bread, butterbeans and corn on the ear.
egg-breaker n. (see quot.).
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1772 Forster in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 422 A sort of Gull, called Egg-breakers, by the natives.
egg-burster n. a thickened area on an embryonic insect helping it to burst the egg membranes when hatching.
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1920 Brit. Museum Return 121 The Egg-burster of Encephalous Fly-larvæ.
1953 New Biology XIV. 116 There are three larval stages in most species [of fleas], two in a few, very alike except in size and in the presence of a conical egg-burster on the top of the head of those of the first stage.
1959 T. R. E. Southwood & D. Leston Land & Water Bugs Brit. Isles 411 Egg-burster, a thickened, often sclerotized, usually Y- or T-shaped area on the vertex of the embryonic cuticle; it bears a tooth and its movement is considered to help in rupturing the chorion and egg membranes.
egg-capsule n. a natural envelope containing eggs.
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1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 653/2 When egg-capsules are formed they are often of large size, have tough walls, and in each capsule are several eggs floating in a viscid fluid.
1921 Brit. Museum Return 119 A string of egg-capsules containing young examples of Buscyon perversum.
1936 F. S. Russell & C. M. Yonge Seas (ed. 2) ii. 50 Common on the under side of rocks are the egg-capsules of the dog-whelk.
egg-case n. (see quot.).
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1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §755 The females [Spiders]..lay their eggs in these tubes; inclosing them in a silken cocoon, or egg-case, which they carry about with them when they go to hunt.
egg-cell n. the cell or germ from which an egg or a living animal is subsequently developed.
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1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man I. vi. 121 The human egg-cell is..not essentially different from those of other Mammals.
1880 E. R. Lankester Degeneration 20 A structureless particle..thrown off from its parent..known as the egg-cell.
egg-chain n. a chain of the egg-cases of certain fishes.
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1870 Amer. Naturalist 3 286 These egg-chains are sometimes two feet in length.
egg-cheese n. (see quot.).
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1802 Ann. Agric. 38 504 Farmers..make..egg cheeses..by putting five yolks of eggs to every pound of curd.
egg-chinned adj. ? double-chinned, or having an egg-shaped chin.
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1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iv. iv. 54 in Wks. II My Eg-chind Laureat, here.
egg-cleavage n. the process of division that occurs in a fertilized egg-cell.
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1899 J. A. Thomson Sci. Life 123 The primary processes of egg-cleavage, and the establishment of the germinal layers.
egg-cluster n. = egg-case n.
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a1705 J. Ray Three Physico-theol. Disc. (1713) i. iv. 49 Ovary or Egg-cluster.
1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 52 The egg-cluster from which the sketch was taken.
egg-cosy n. [cosy adj. 2] a cover to keep a boiled egg warm.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > other tableware or items for table
pewter1426
warnera1552
nef1567
pewtery1645
hollow-ware1682
equipage1683
flatware1686
napkin ring1686
pewterware1738
egg cup1773
dish-rim1774
butter cooler1784
dish-cross1785
argyll1789
toast-rack1801
centrepiece1836
table centrepiece1850
silverware1862
doily1864
table centre1865
potato ring1888
egg-cosy1894
sandwich flag1907
cheese board1916
Lazy Susan1917
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > table linen > [noun] > others
table napkin1564
tea-cosy1863
tray-cloth1889
egg-cosy1894
shower1931
1894 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Real Charlotte III. xxxv. 23 The egg-cosy that his wife had crocheted for him.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 3 Nov. 6/2 The sale of pin-cushions, d'oyleys, and knitted egg-cosies was unprecedented.
1909 Lady's World Dec. 284 The egg cosy made in the form of a cock's head and comb.
1967 A. Wilson No Laughing Matter iii. 352 Journalism and worked up righteous anger, that's all she'd written. Egg cosies and cloaks!
egg-covering n. the external membrane of an insect's egg.
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1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 270/1 The young..swim about..the instant that they are liberated from the egg-coverings.
egg-dance n. a dance blindfold among eggs; figurative an intricate and difficult task.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun]
dance of Macabre?c1430
springc1450
lege de moya1529
bobc1550
lusty gallant1569
duret1613
fading1613
huckler1617
ground-measure1621
entry1631
slatter de pouchc1640
ballo1651
Irish trot1651
omnium gatheruma1652
clutterdepouch1652
upspring1654
passacaglia1659
shuffle1659
passacaille1667
flip-flap1676
chaconne1685
charmer1702
Cheshire-round1706
Louvre1729
stick dance1730
white joke1730
baby dance1744
Nancy Dawson1766
fricassee1775
bumpkin1785
Totentanz1789
Flora('s) dance1790
goombay1790
egg-dance1801
supper dance1820
Congo dance1823
slip-jig1829
bran-dance1833
roly-poly1833
Congo1835
mazy1841
furry1848
bull-dance1855
stampede1856
double-shuffling1859
frog dance1863
hokee-pokee1873
plait dance1876
slow dancing1884
snake dance1895
beast dance1900
soft-shoe1900
cakewalk1902
floral dance1911
snake dance1911
apache dance1912
grizzly bear1912
jazz dance1917
jazz dancing1917
jazz1919
wine-dance1920
camel-walk1921
furry dance1928
snake-dance1931
pas d'action1936
trance dancing1956
touch dance1965
hokey-cokey1966
moonwalk1969
moonwalking1983
Crip Walk1989
mapantsula1990
the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or delicacy > a difficult or delicate matter or task
nicety1725
egg-dance1801
hot brick1865
hot potato1952
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. v. 172 The egg-dance..was common enough about thirty years back.
1882 Society 18 Nov. 29/2 The slip is very excusable, for it is an egg-dance.
egg-eater n. South African a snake of the genus Dasypeltis, capable of crushing eggs with internal projections from its vertebrae.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Dasypeltis (egg-eater)
dasypeltis1887
egg-eater1887
egg-eating snake1897
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 194/2 A..genus of snakes, Dasypeltis... In Cape Colony these snakes are well known under the name of ‘eyer-vreter’, i.e. ‘egg-eaters’.
1911 East London Daily Dispatch (S. Afr.) 1 Sept. 7 The Egg-eater lives almost entirely on eggs, which it eats in a curious fashion.
1969 A. Bellairs Life of Reptiles I. iv. 183 An egg-eater is able to demolish all the eggs of a clutch in rapid succession.
egg-eating snake n. = egg-eater n.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Dasypeltis (egg-eater)
dasypeltis1887
egg-eater1887
egg-eating snake1897
1897 Daily News 19 July 3/1 Natal..now claims to possess an egg-eating snake of phenomenal abilities.
1931 Times Educ. Suppl. 27 June p. iv/3 A very young egg-eating snake from Africa.
1965 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Snakes viii. 174 The egg-eating snake eats nothing but eggs and it is not surprising to find that many African birds have evolved elaborate anti-snake devices.
egg-end n. an egg-shaped cap of a cylindrical boiler.
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1892 Daily News 23 May 6/1 A soup cauldron holding about 140 gallons was improvised from the ‘egg end’ of a steam boiler.
egg flip n. = eggnog n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > hot alcoholic drinks (with milk or eggs) > [noun] > nog
caudle ferrya1325
hen's milk1790
egg-hot1796
rumfustian1824
eggnog1825
egg flip1832
fustian1832
Tom and Jerry1840
nog1851
1832 J. Romilly Diary 23 June in Cambridge Diary (1967) 16 Egg-flip & sack in Sen[ate] H[ouse] at 11.
1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. ii. iii. 487 Some concentrated liquid nourishment, as a few spoonsful of egg~flip or beef-tea.
egg-form n. an ellipse.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > conic section > ellipse
egg-form1551
ellipsis1570
oval1570
ellipse1753
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > two-dimensional > closed curve > ellipse
egg-form1551
ellipsis1570
ellipse1753
1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. Def. It is lyke a circle that were brused..whiche forme Geometricians dooe call an egge forme.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pancake, tortilla, or oatcake > [noun] > pancake
froise1338
pancakea1400
flawnc1400
crust-rollc1430
pancake wisea1500
flapjack1620
torteau1625
egg-fraise1693
wafer pancake1769
flamm1819
blini1842
leather-jacket1846
round robin1847
Pfannkuchen1856
palacinka1884
blintz1903
latke1909
crêpe Suzette1922
Dutch baby1927
spring roll1927
Palatschinken1929
egg roll1938
tostada1945
crêpe1951
ploye1959
palacsinta1964
pancake roll1967
appam1972
popiah1975
uthappam1976
1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 323 An egg-fraise.
egg-fruit n. the fruit of the eggplant.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > fruits as vegetables > [noun] > aubergine
love apple1578
brinjal1611
brown jolly1756
melongene1793
aubergine1796
egg-fruit1811
garden egg1811
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > aubergine
mad-apple1578
rage apple1578
raging apple1578
raging love apple1578
verangene1587
brinjal1611
brown jolly1756
melinzane1775
melongena1785
melongene1793
aubergine1796
vegetable egg1797
egg-fruit1811
Jew's apple1838
1811–12 W. J. Titford Sketches Hortus Botanicus Americanus 53 (heading) Egg fruit or Mad Apple, Solanum Melongena... It is called in India, Branjaw, in Jamaica, Garden Egg and Valanghanna, Brown Jolly or Bolangena.
1817 W. Darby Geogr. Descr. Louisiana (ed. 2) 222 All the solanums (Irish potatoe, peppers, and egg-fruit,) whose leaves are easily killed by the slightest degree of freezing.
1887 Harper's Mag. Jan. 310/1 A dozen well-grown plants will supply a large family with egg-fruit.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > sperm > semen
seedOE
naturec1390
semena1398
kindc1400
semence1480
mettle1612
egg-fry1674
ammunition1695
spunkc1890
jism1899
scum1967
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 124 An egg..that sprang from the impetus of the tread, the Harvey-antang, or contagion and egg-fry of Kerckring and de Graaf.
egg-full adj. as full as an egg is of meat.
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1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 354 I am egg-full of life.
egg-glass n. (a) a glass for holding an egg; (b) a sand-glass in which the running of the sand indicates the time during which an egg should be boiled.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > timer or chronograph
stop-watch1740
time marker1835
time recorder1836
hourglass1852
time clock1857
time lock1858
egg-glass1867
chronograph1868
egg-timer1869
timer1869
gunner's pendulum1876
time switch1884
chess-clock1905
phototimer1942
pinger1950
shot clock1967
1867 R. W. Emerson Progr. Culture in Wks. (1906) III. 227 No more a measure of time than an hour-glass or an egg-glass.
egg-guide n. Entomology, a movable flap at the external opening of an oviduct to guide the eggs as they are laid.
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1898 A. S. Packard Text-bk. Entomol. 183 In the Acrydiidæ the external opening of the oviduct is bounded on the ventral side by a movable, triangular, acute flap, the egg.
egg-hole n. (see quot.).
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1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 130 Egg-hole (Derby), a notch cut in the wall of a lode to hold the end of a stempel.
egg-hot n. ‘a hot drink made of beer, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg’ (Berks. Gloss. E.D.S.).
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > hot alcoholic drinks (with milk or eggs) > [noun] > nog
caudle ferrya1325
hen's milk1790
egg-hot1796
rumfustian1824
eggnog1825
egg flip1832
fustian1832
Tom and Jerry1840
nog1851
1796 C. Lamb Let. 14 June in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 32 I have been drinking egg-hot and smoking Oronooko.
1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xi. 119 She..made a little jug of egg-hot afterwards to console us.
1886 Folk-lore Jrnl. 4 116 At the plentiful supper always provided on this night [sc. Christmas Eve], egg-hot, or eggy-hot, was the principal drink. It was made with eggs, hot beer, sugar, and rum, and was poured from one jug into another until..covered with froth.
egg-life n. (see quot.).
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1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man I. i. 12 Egg-life or embryo-life within the egg-membranes.
egg-membrane n. a membrane surrounding an egg; = vitelline membrane at vitelline adj. 2b.
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1879Egg-membranes [see egg-life n.].
1885 Science 22 May 425/1 In the Scombresocidae the entire egg-membrane is covered with strong filaments, which intertwine with those of contiguous eggs.
1893 J. Tuckey tr. B. Hatschek Amphioxus 74 The movement of the embryos inside the egg membrane..is a quite peculiar one.
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1704 A. van Leeuwenhoek in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 24 1620 I saw exceeding small ones still remaining in the Ovarium or Egg-nest.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant
rouncival1570
garden pea1573
field pease1597
vale-grey1615
rose pea1629
hotspur1663
seven-year pea1672
rathe-ripe1677
huff-codc1680
pigeon pea1683
hog-pease1686
shrub pea1691
field pea1707
pea1707
crown pea1726
maple rouncival1731
marrowfat1731
moratto1731
pig pea1731
sickle-pea1731
hog pea1732
maple pea1732
marrow pea1733
black eye?1740
egg-pea1744
magotty bay bean1789
Prussian1804
maple grey1805
partridge pea1812
Prussian blue1822
scimitar1834
marrow1855
fill-basket1881
string-pea1891
mattar1908
vining pea1959
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > pea > other peas
garden pea1573
rathe-ripe1677
pigeon pea1683
sugar pea1707
marrowfat1731
moratto1731
maple pea1732
egg-pea1744
petits pois1820
pea1866
fill-basket1881
string-pea1891
vining pea1959
1744 Notes & Observ. Tusser's Husb. 19 Runcival Pease..in their room are got the Egg-pea, the Sugar-pea, etc.
egg-peg n. the sloe.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > plum > sloe
sloec725
blackberry1567
egg-peg1878
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > plum > sloe
sloec725
blackberry1567
cat-sloe1578
snag1578
hedge-peak1630
bull-plum1770
hedge-speak1847
winterpick1859
egg-peg1878
1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Egg-peg Bushes, Prunus spinosa L.
egg-plum n. an egg-shaped plum, generally of a light yellow colour.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > plum > other types of plum
bullacea1375
myxe?1440
prunelloa1450
bullace-fruit1530
wheat-plum1538
wheaten plum1542
pear plum1573
finger plum1577
perdrigon1582
damson plum1584
apple-plum1601
bullace-plum1608
amber plum1629
Christian1629
queen mother1629
cinnamon-plum1664
date1664
Orleans1674
Chickasaw plum1760
blue gage1764
golden drop1772
beach-plum1785
quetsch1839
egg-plum1859
hog plum1863
bladder-plum1869
prune1872
Carlsbad plum1885
apricot plum1893
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > plum > other types of
white plumc1330
bullacea1375
myxe?1440
prunelloa1450
bullace-fruit1530
horse plum1530
plum1530
wheat-plum1538
wheaten plum1542
choke-plum1556
pear plum1573
finger plum1577
scad1577
skeg1601
merchant1602
bullace-plum1608
malacadonian1608
prune plum1613
date plum1626
mussel plum1626
amber plum1629
black plum1629
primordian1629
queen mother1629
winter crack1629
myrobalan1630
Christian1651
Monsieur's plum1658
cinnamon-plum1664
date1664
primordial1664
Orleans1674
mirabelle1706
myrobalan plum1708
Mogul1718
mussel1718
Chickasaw plum1760
blue gage1764
magnum bonum1764
golden drop1772
beach-plum1785
sweet plum1796
winesour1836
wild plum1838
quetsch1839
egg-plum1859
Victoria1860
cherry plum1866
bladder-plum1869
prune1872
sour plum1874
Carlsbad plum1885
horse-jug1886
French plum1939
1859 All Year Round 30 Apr. 17 The persiman is like a large egg-plum.
egg-pop n. U.S. ?.
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1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table (1890) i. 6 Water to make egg-pop with.
egg-posset n. = egg flip n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > hot alcoholic drinks (with milk or eggs) > [noun] > posset
posseta1425
balductumc1450
sack-posset1601
pepper posset1669
treacle-posset1732
brandy-posset1769
powsowdie1825
egg-posset1832
beer-posset1842
1832 W. Hone Year Bk. 9 Jan. 61 Egg-posset, alias Egg-flip, otherwise..‘rum booze’.
egg-pouch n. = egg-case n.
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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 72 The only insects..known to spin an egg-pouch like the spiders are the hydrophili, a kind of water beetle.
egg-sac n. = egg-pouch n.
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1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 50 All the egg-sacs would have been found empty.
1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) ii. ii. 368 They [sc. the Gregarinæ] have been described under a variety of titles, such as worm-nodules, egg-sacs, etc.
egg powder n. an artificially prepared substitute for eggs in cookery.
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the world > food and drink > food > eggs > [noun] > egg-powder
egg powder1862
1862 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. Sept. 239/2 With the mysteries of making egg-powder we are quite unacquainted.
1864 Chemist & Druggist 193 It seems that certain cooks..are in the habit of buying and using egg powders.
1907 H. W. Wiley Foods & their Adulteration ii. 115 The egg powder..formed is almost devoid of moisture and..may be kept for a long time without deterioration.
egg-purse n. = egg-capsule n.
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1921 Chambers's Jrnl. 375/2 The cockroach..is very careful in the selection of a suitable site to place her egg-purse.
1921 Chambers's Jrnl. 375/2 Each egg-purse [of a cockroach] contains sixteen eggs, arranged in two rows, with the ends from which the larvæ will emerge pointing towards the top.
egg-raft n. a connected series of eggs laid by various insects.
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1927 Observer 18 Sept. 8 The egg-raft is laid by the many species of that group of mosquitoes, the Culicine, represented by our common gnat.
egg-rope n. = egg-raft n.
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1891 Nature 10 Sept. 457 Each egg-rope is moored to the bank by a thread.
egg-string n. = egg-raft n.
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1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 222 In Nephelis and Clepsine..‘egg-strings’, produced by the continuous division of a cell, lie free in the capsular cavity.
Egg-Saturday n. the Saturday before Shrove Tuesday (Nares).
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Saturday before Lent > [noun]
Egg-Saturday1607
1607 Christian Prince in Misc. Ant. Angl. (1816) 68 On the sixt of february, beeing egge satterday, it pleased some gentlemen schollers in the towne to make a dauncing night of it..the next Tuesday following beeing shrovetuesday.
a1645 R. Baker Theatrum Triumphans (1670) 37 One trick which he..seems to have learned..from Egge-Saturday in Oxford, to make diversity of meats with diversity of dressing.
eggs Benedict n. Cookery (originally U.S.) a dish consisting of poached eggs placed on a slice of ham on toast, with a covering of hollandaise sauce.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [noun] > other egg dishes
poachéa1425
meseladea1450
potrona1450
malasadec1450
poached eggc1450
eggs in moonshine?1558
snow1597
fondue1806
Scotch egg1808
soufflé1813
scrabbed eggsa1825
Scotch woodcock1836
egg salad1873
prairie oyster1879
Adam and Eve on a raft1891
Russian egg1891
eggs Benedict1898
huevos rancheros1901
sabayon1906
oeuf en cocotte1909
shakshuka1930
piperade1931
thousand-year egg1961
1898 A. Meyer Eggs, & how to use Them 43 Poached eggs..Benedict, split and toast some small muffins; put on each a nice round slice of broiled ham, and on the ham the poached egg; pour over some Hollandaise sauce.
1907 S. T. Rorer Many Ways for cooking Eggs 46 Eggs Bénédict. Separate two eggs [etc.].
1971 A. Hailey Wheels v. 72 Brett..coerced them into preparing Eggs Benedict, which was never on the standard menu.
1986 Washington Post 16 Feb. e4/2 Eggs Benedict go for $5.95, omelets for $4.95, and the view is priceless.
egg-slice n. a kitchen utensil for removing omelets or fried eggs from the pan.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > slice
slice1459
egg-slice1747
fish-slice1747
trowel1773
cake slice1813
fish-trowel1855
trowel-slicer1862
palette knife1889
cake server?1891
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 100 Fry them brown in fresh Butter; then take them out with an Egg-slice.
egg-man n. (also eggs-man) a collector of (wild fowls') eggs.
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the world > life > biology > collection or conservation of natural specimens > [noun] > egg-collecting > one who collects eggs
egger1834
egg-man1886
1886 E. C. Dawson Life Bp. Hannington (1887) viii. 107 The enthusiastic eggsman..scrambled up again with the contents of three nests in his pockets.
egg-spoon n. (a) a spoon used in eating eggs; (b) (see quot.).
egg stand n. a stand or frame for holding a set of egg cups.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > stand for egg-cups
egg stand1839
1839 Rep. Constabulary Force Commissioners 25 in Parl. Papers [169] XIX P— slipped into the parlour and brought out a watch and a silver egg-stand.
1848 H. R. Forster Stowe Catal. 60 2 egg-stands; and 4 cups.
1909 A. Bennett Old Wives' Tale ii. i. §3 The resplendent egg-stand holding twelve silver-gilt egg-cups and twelve chased spoons to match.
1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 136 Double-decker egg stands..made to hold 12, 24 or 48 eggs, were to be found in all Victorian and Edwardian larders.
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1630 J. Taylor Whip of Pride in Wks. 631 Whose Calues eg-starch may in some sort be taker As if they had beene hang'd to smoake like Bacon.
egg-stone n. = oolite n.
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1822 G. Young Geol. Surv. Yorks. Coast (1828) 68 This rock is called oolite, or egg-stone.
egg-sucker n. (see quot.).
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Rhamphastidae (toucan)
toucan1568
pepper-bird1752
toco1781
toucanet1825
egg-suckerc1865
c1865 Ld. Brougham in Circle of Sci. I. Introd. Disc. 22 A bird called the Toucan, or Egg-sucker, which chiefly feeds on the eggs found in..nests.
Egg-Sunday n. the Sunday before Shrove-Tuesday.
egg tempera n. a medium of painting consisting of tempera colours mixed with egg in various forms, usually the yolk.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > tempera or distemper > specific
egg tempera1899
1899 C. J. Herringham Bk. of Art of Cennino Cennini 207 For Pacheco egg-tempera meant the whole egg with fig-milk.
1922 R. Fry Let. 12 Apr. (1972) II. 525 [Picasso]'s doing wonderful little pictures of nudes..in egg tempera, like some highly finished miniatures by Giulio Romano or Sebastiano del Piombo.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 877/2 The earliest European forerunners of a controlled egg-tempera medium are found among the religious paintings of the Byzantine era.
egg-timer n. (a) a device for timing the cooking of an egg; (b) a device for boiling an egg.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > timer or chronograph
stop-watch1740
time marker1835
time recorder1836
hourglass1852
time clock1857
time lock1858
egg-glass1867
chronograph1868
egg-timer1869
timer1869
gunner's pendulum1876
time switch1884
chess-clock1905
phototimer1942
pinger1950
shot clock1967
1869 G. Dodd Dict. Manuf. 320/2 Some or other of them [sc. varieties of sand] are used in..hour-glasses and egg-timers.
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 112/2 An assortment of Egg..Timers, etc.
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Egg-timer, an apparatus for the automatic cooking of eggs. It consists of a vessel containing boiling water and a series of..baskets... When the time has elapsed the basket automatically rises out of the water.
1962 TV Times 28 Dec. 6/2 An egg-timer, I repeated with the assurance of a man who knew which way the sand trickled.
egg-tooth n. a small, hard, white protuberance developed in the embryo bird and reptile which is used to crack the egg and is cast off after hatching.
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1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 36 The ‘egg-tooth’..is developed in the embryos of all birds as a small whitish protuberance or conglomeration of salts of calcareous matter, deposited in the middle layers of the epidermis of the tip of the upper bill.
1959 New Biology XXX. 87 In viviparous reptiles the eggshell is reduced to a thin, soft membrane or lost entirely, and the egg-tooth, which assists the young of oviparous forms to break out of their eggs, is sometimes rudimentary.
1960 M. Burton Wild Animals Brit. Isles 145 The young grass snakes..make their way out of the egg by tearing several rents in it with a special egg-tooth projecting from the front of the jaws.
egg-trot n. = egg-wife's trot n.
egg-tube n. an oviduct, esp. of an insect.
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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlii. 148 The ovaries, or egg-tubes as they are sometimes called.
1895 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. 137 The number of egg-tubes varies greatly in different Insects.
egg-urchin n. the popular name of one or more species of echinus n.
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1843 R. Embleton in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 11. 51 E. Sphæra. —— CommonEgg Urchin. E. miliaris. —— Purple-tipped Egg Urchin.
egg-web n. = egg-raft n.
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1889 M. E. Bamford Up & Down Brooks 45 These egg-webs are clear above the water.
egg-whip n. an egg-whisk.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > whisk or beater
molinet1648
whisk1666
froth-sticka1706
egg-beater1828
egg-whisk1868
egg-whip1909
whippit1926
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Egg-whip.
1910 Daily Chron. 23 Apr. 7/5 Beat with an egg whip until smooth and glossy.
egg-whisk n. a utensil for beating eggs to a froth.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > whisk or beater
molinet1648
whisk1666
froth-sticka1706
egg-beater1828
egg-whisk1868
egg-whip1909
whippit1926
1868 M. Jewry Warne's Model Cookery 36/1 Egg whisk, for beating eggs.
1882 Worcs. Exhib. Catal. iii. 38 Egg whisk for confectioners.
1924 Week-end Bk. 261 A large jug, and an egg-whisk..efficiently replace the [cocktail] shaker.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > sellers of other provisions
cheesemonger1185
pudding-wife1287
eirmongerc1305
honeyman1510
egg-wife1659
corn-chandler1687
pickle man1714
tea man1736
pickle dealer1791
iceman1807
ice-creamer1851
plum duffer1851
barm-man1913
traiteur1963
1659 H. H. Burnell tr. Aristophanes Worlds Idol sig. Cijv A Bawd, a scolding Eggwife.
egg-wife's trot n. the pace at which an egg-wife would ride to market.
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Without a or plural. The content of the egg of a hen or other domestic fowl, esp. as used for food.
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the world > food and drink > food > eggs > [noun] > contents of
egg1854
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > paints > preparation of colours > mixing fluids, etc.
vehicle1758
megilp1768
siccative1825
medium1845
egg1854
gumption1854
extender1920
binder1922
1854 F. W. Fairholt Dict. Terms Art Guazzo, a hard and durable kind of distemper painting used by the ancients, the vehicle or medium consisting of egg, rum, or glue, which resists the action of damp of all kinds, and preserves the colours very completely.
1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. 467 Fowl and rice croquettes... Dip the balls into egg, sprinkle them with bread crumbs, and fry a nice brown.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xvi. 265 Egg is in English a bounded noun, (the egg, an egg) but occurs also as a mass noun (he spilled egg on his necktie).
1960 A. E. Bender Dict. Nutrition & Food Technol. 43/1 Egg is a valuable source of protein, iron, fat, and vitamins A, B1 and B2.
1972 A. Craig Discover Lovelier You iv. 58/2 Egg is a time-honored conditioner for dry hair.
1986 B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking iv. xiv. 268 The most ‘common sort’ of pancake, made simply of egg, flour, and milk.
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egg-butt n. Horse Riding used attributively to designate a type of snaffle in which the connection between the mouthpiece and each side-ring is an egg-shaped joint.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [adjective] > furnished with a bit
port-mouthed1739
egg-butt1923
1923 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Ann. Price List 1923–24 243/2 (heading) Egg butt race bridoon.
1927 S. G. Goldschmidt Bridle Wise vi. 35 I recommend egg-butt joints, as they present a smooth surface to the corners of the lips and cannot wound them.
1986 Your Horse Sept. 27/1 I ride him in a lightweight German eggbutt snaffle.
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egg cream n. U.S. any of various kinds of rich sweet drink made originally with eggs and milk or cream and more recently with milk, soda water, and flavouring.
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the world > food and drink > drink > milk drinks > [noun] > with eggs
egg cream1839
1839 L. Bryan Kentucky Housewife 326 Egg cream. Beat very well the yolks of half a dozen eggs... Make a pint of sweet cream [etc.].
1906 Soda Fountain May 23/1 Egg Drinks... Egg Cream..15c.
1947 I. Shulman Amboy Dukes i. 4 The strollers..stood at the open windows of candy stores..drinking..three-cent egg creams.
1975 New Yorker 21 July 22/1 My beloved wife, Whitney, began introducing New York delicacies like borscht, egg creams, and matzohbrei to the populace.
1988 M. Stewart Quick Cook Menus 213 (caption) This chocolate fizz, served in a ruby goblet in front of a leaded window in the hall, is similar to an egg cream—a traditional New York drink that contains neither egg nor cream.
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egg roll n. originally U.S. a Chinese roll made of diced meat or prawns, and shredded cabbage with other vegetables, fried in a casing of thin egg-dough; also, loosely, = spring roll n. at spring n.1 Compounds 3e(a).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pancake, tortilla, or oatcake > [noun] > pancake
froise1338
pancakea1400
flawnc1400
crust-rollc1430
pancake wisea1500
flapjack1620
torteau1625
egg-fraise1693
wafer pancake1769
flamm1819
blini1842
leather-jacket1846
round robin1847
Pfannkuchen1856
palacinka1884
blintz1903
latke1909
crêpe Suzette1922
Dutch baby1927
spring roll1927
Palatschinken1929
egg roll1938
tostada1945
crêpe1951
ploye1959
palacsinta1964
pancake roll1967
appam1972
popiah1975
uthappam1976
1938 S. Middleton Dining, Wining & Dancing in N.Y. v. 75 Mister Lum..is famous for his..egg rolls, Canton style.
1973 Welcomat (Philadelphia) 10 Oct. 1/1 A gaily-decorated truck selling eggrolls.
1984 Y.-K. So Classic Chinese Cookbk. 196 Spring rolls, also known as egg rolls, comprise a filling wrapped in a thin dough, deep-fried until crispy. The more tasty the filling and the thinner the dough wrapper, the more delicious the spring roll.
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egg noodle n. a wheat noodle made with egg; chiefly in plural.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > noodle > [noun] > types of noodle
tagliarini1846
egg noodle1884
mien1890
soba1896
rice stick1898
tagliatelle1899
bihon1915
udon1920
Spätzle1933
crispy noodles1940
ramen1962
1884 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 2 Oct. 1/7 The Board of Health has caused several arrests of manufacturers of ‘egg noodles’ and ‘vermicelli’, because of using..a cheap and injurious substitute for eggs and saffron.
1924 N.Y. Times 19 June 3/1 There will be wiener schnitzel with paprika sauce, parsley potatoes and egg noodles for those from the Middle and Northwest.
1998 BBC Vegetarian Good Food May 36/2 This dish is dairy-free, but serve it with rice noodles rather than egg noodles for a vegan dish.
Draft additions September 2016
egg custard n. a custard made with milk and eggs, typically sweetened and baked; a dish of this.
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?1780 H. Smith Treat. Use & Abuse Mineral Waters (ed. 3) 34 An Egg Custard..merits some Attention.
1827 Western Monthly Rev. Sept. 255 The pulp of the fruit [sc. a pawpaw] resembles egg custard... It has the same creamy feeling in the mouth and unites the taste of eggs, cream, sugar and spice.
1935 H. Carr Los Angeles 243 Following chawon-mushi, an egg custard and o-co-co—which is a fruit pickle which is terrible to the Occidental taste.
2006 Metro (Toronto) 17 Feb. 32/4 A stout egg custard doused in caramel—with a very proper cappuccino, and you've got the sort of meal that'll send you home to a sated, dreamless sleep.
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egg salad n. (a) a salad consisting principally of eggs; (b) (chiefly North American) a mixture of chopped hard-boiled eggs, mayonnaise, and seasonings, typically used as a sandwich filling.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared vegetables and dishes > [noun] > salad
saladc1390
round salad1578
acetar1623
acetary1657
green salad1675
sass1775
potato salad1796
Russian salad1846
egg salad1873
sunomono1900
salade niçoise1907
Spanish salad1911
Waldorf salad1911
gado-gado1924
Spanish sauce1928
panzanella1937
side salad1940
Caesar salad1946
Cobb salad1947
wedge salad1949
chaat1954
fattoush1955
tabbouleh1955
pico de gallo1958
Caesar1978
caprese1978
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [noun] > other egg dishes
poachéa1425
meseladea1450
potrona1450
malasadec1450
poached eggc1450
eggs in moonshine?1558
snow1597
fondue1806
Scotch egg1808
soufflé1813
scrabbed eggsa1825
Scotch woodcock1836
egg salad1873
prairie oyster1879
Adam and Eve on a raft1891
Russian egg1891
eggs Benedict1898
huevos rancheros1901
sabayon1906
oeuf en cocotte1909
shakshuka1930
piperade1931
thousand-year egg1961
1873 Daily News 12 May 5/7 He is handing the Fremden Blatt to that stout old gentleman, three tables off, who is combing his hair over his egg salad.
1882 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 19 July 7/7 An egg salad is an excellent cold dish for lunch or a picnic dinner. Boil your eggs hard, slice them, cover with a mayonnaise dressing, and put a few lettuce leaves about the plate.
1920 Daily Free Press (Carbondale, Illinois) 24 Jan. 1/6 The hostess served a menu of hot rolls, egg salad, sliced cold tongue and coffee.
1965 Austin (Minn.) Daily Herald 2 Jan. 15/5 Egg salad sandwiches, cheese slices. tomato soup, celery sticks.
1988 L. Colwin Home Cooking xiii. 91 This yummy condiment can be..served with mozzarella cheese, or put on egg salad or a hero sandwich, or spread on Italian bread as an hors d'oeuvre.
1994 Times 8 Oct. (S2) 28/3 He'd be in there negotiating over egg-salad sandwiches with these showbusiness titans who ran motion-picture companies.
2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 12 May (Travel section) 3/5 Keep a collapsible cooler bag and a cold pack in your car, so if you pass by a farmers' market..you can get that lettuce or egg salad.
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egg donor n. (a) a woman who donates her unfertilized eggs for use in in vitro fertilization or other assisted reproductive technologies, esp. as a means of enabling another woman to conceive; (b) a female cow, mouse, etc., whose (fertilized) eggs are used in assisted reproductive technologies or for biomedical research.
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1948 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 55 444 The eggs..were then transferred to a Carrel flask containing 3 c.c. of serum that had been prepared from blood taken from the egg donor twenty-two hours previously.
1948 Discovery Feb. 53/2 A single surgical operation early in the life of each cow to be used as an egg donor.
1966 Rep. Scrapie Seminar 1964 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 230/1 One [case of scrapie] was the only egg donor we have.
1988 R. H. Blank Rationing Med. ii. 63 When the embryo reaches the 8- to 16-cell stage, it is transferred to the uterus of the egg donor, or to another woman.
2003 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100 15613/2 Fertilized mouse eggs (8 h) were obtained from..F1 egg donors mated to..F1 stud males.
2013 Guardian 9 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 8/1 My egg donor was a fairly well-known model and photographer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
eggv.1
/ɛɡ/, U.S. /ɛɡ/ 1. transitive. To incite, encourage, urge on; to provoke, tempt. Cf. edge v.1 Const. (†til), to, unto (an action, enterprise, etc.). Obsolete except as in 2.
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the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)] > incite or instigate > urge on or incite
tar ona900
wheta1000
eggc1200
spura1225
aprick1297
ertc1325
sharpa1340
abaita1470
sharpen1483
to set (a person) forth1488
to set forth1553
egg1566
hound1571
shove?1571
edge1575
strain1581
spur1582
spurn1583
hag1587
edge1600
hist1604
switch1648
string1881
haik1892
goose1934
c1200 Trin Coll. Hom. 195 Alse þe deuel him to eggede.
c1230 Hali Meid. 3 & eggeð þe to brudlac.
1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 278 Þe clergi of Scotland egged þer kyng Jon.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1130 He sent enuiously to þemperour & egged him swiþe bi a certayne day bataile to a-bide.
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋894 Þei þat eggen or consenten to þe sinne bien partiners of þe sinne.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 136 Eggyn, or entycyn to doon well or yvele [Pynson eggen, or styre to gode or yll], incito, provoco.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cxliv He shall haue frendes and felawys at honde To egge him forwarde vnto vnhappynes.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. ix. 17 Thai foyn at othir, and eggis to bargane.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 413/2 Especially being egged..by his brethren: taking it to stomache.
a1593 H. Smith Wks. (1866–7) I. 379 A man which sharpens his enemy with taunts, when he would egg him to fight.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales i. xi. 21 The like occasion egged him to the like crueltie against Semp. Gracchus.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 93 Their suspicions egged them to cruelty.
2. with on. Const. to, etc.
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the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)] > incite or instigate > urge on or incite
tar ona900
wheta1000
eggc1200
spura1225
aprick1297
ertc1325
sharpa1340
abaita1470
sharpen1483
to set (a person) forth1488
to set forth1553
egg1566
hound1571
shove?1571
edge1575
strain1581
spur1582
spurn1583
hag1587
edge1600
hist1604
switch1648
string1881
haik1892
goose1934
1566 T. Drant in tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Dv Ile egge them on to speake some thyng, Whiche spoken may repent them.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 792 Cassius..did..egge him [sc. Brutus] on the more, for a priuate quarrell he had conceiued against Cæsar.
1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iv. xx. 86 The Neatresse longing for the rest, did egge him on to tell How faire she was.
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits iv. 45 Sibils and Bacchants..men think are egged on by some diuine inspiration.
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. D5 That foregoing light That egs us on 'cording to what we have liven.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 328 Mathew Hazard [was] a main Incendiary in the Rebellion, violently egged on by his wife.
1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels II. 257 Thus they egg Men on to old Age..till they learn too late.
1747 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. I. 21 Everything conspired to..egg them on to the undertaking.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. x. 171 Schemers and flatterers would egg him on.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
eggv.2
/ɛɡ/, U.S. /ɛɡ/ transitive.
a. In combination to egg and crumb: to cover with yolk of egg and crumbs.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > garnishing > garnish [verb (transitive)] > cover with crumbs
crima1450
crumb1579
bread?1600
breadcrumb1817
to egg and crumb1834
gratiné1978
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. i. 8 They be all hegged and crumbed.
1864 Mrs. H. Wood Trevlyn Hold III. ix. 131 To see a sweetbread egged and crumbed.
b. To pelt with (rotten) eggs.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > strike with an object > with something thrown > with eggs
rotten-egg1848
egg1857
1857 Sun (Baltimore) 1 Aug. The abolition editor of the Newport News, was egged out of Alexandria..on Monday.
1883 Harper's Mag. Oct. 806/1 An Iowa poet has been egged by the populace.
c. intransitive. To collect (wild fowls') eggs.
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the world > life > biology > collection or conservation of natural specimens > [verb (intransitive)] > egg-collecting
egg1887
1887 E. C. Dawson Life Bp. Hannington viii. 106 They..fished, egged..and explored to their heart's content.
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