egg
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.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
Senses relating to people.
“a bad egg a good egg a tough egg Cheerio, old egg!”
Verb 4 meanings
To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
“The angry demonstrators egged the riot police.”
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.”
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.
To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
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”).
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EGG at a glance
EGG has 3 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (E 1 + G 2 + G 2) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,162 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with egg
All rhymes- TEGG6
- YEGG9
- OVEREGG12
- SKEGG11
One letter away
- EGO4
- ENG4
- IGG5
- ERG4
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