egg

noun20

1. •
   a rounded object that is laid by a female animal such as a bird, and that a young one can grow inside

   • [T]hinke him as a Serpents egge, / VVhich hatch'd, vvould as his kinde grovv mischieuous; / And kill him in the shell. — 1599
2. •
   The (usually) non-developing, edible egg of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.

   • We made a big omelette with three eggs for breakfast.
   • I should determine the minimal amount of egg required to make good mayonnaise.
3. •
   A food item shaped to resemble an egg, such as a chocolate egg.
4. •
   A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg.

   • His stomacke vvas queasie (for comming there Coacht) / The jogging had caus’d some crudities rise; / To help it he call’d for a Puritan poacht, / That used to turne up the egg’s of his eyes. — 1621
5. •
   A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.
6. •
   Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
7. •
   A golf ball.
8. •
   (old-fashioned) A bomb or mine.
9. •
   Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
10. •
    (informal, figurative) A person; a fellow.

    • Cheerio, old egg!
11. •
    (figurative) A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning.

    • So I remember being told, in the very early part of my transition, that I had been, until now, an egg, and—as powerfully rooted in a belief in latency as I found myself[.] — 2020
12. •
    (figurative) One's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
13. •
    A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
14. •
    (disapproving, figurative) A foolish or obnoxious person.

    • Shut up, you egg!
15. •
    (disapproving, figurative) A user of the microblogging service Twitter identified by the default avatar (historically an image of an egg) rather than a custom image; hence, a newbie or noob.
16. •
    (offensive, figurative) A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
17. •
    (figurative) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
18. •
    A would-be spark, especially one created by an overweight spaceship and that leads to a pattern's destruction.
19. •
    (figurative, no longer used) Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage.

    • [S]oe Power of Warre / From the first Egge of Libertie, out-Creepes / A fatall Serpent; […] — 1658
20. •
    (disapproving, no longer used) A young person.

    • VVhat you Egge? / Yong fry of Treachery? — 1606

verb6

1. •
   To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).

   • O harpy Love-rule, murd'rous Hag; / Whither dost thou blind Mortals drag! / 'Tis thou to Battle eggest Kings / As well as Louts to Wrestling-rings; […] — 1758
2. •
   To throw (especially rotten) eggs at (someone or something).

   • The angry demonstrators egged the riot police.
   • The students were caught egging the principal’s car as a prank.
3. •
   To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg 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." — 1833
4. •
   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.
5. •
   To collect the eggs of wild birds.
6. •
   (dialect, vulgar) To conceive a child, especially recklessly.

   • I was out with my girlfriend in Birmingham, when some colorful local told us not to egg.

noun1

1. •
   Initialism of electroglottography.