rotten egg
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rotten egg (plural rotten eggs)
- (slang, idiomatic, humorous, childish) A person who is the latest, the last, or the slowest in a group to arrive somewhere or to perform a certain task.
- Last one there is a rotten egg!
- 1942, McCall's, volume 69, page 23:
- This barbaric punishment consisted of chasing the victim all over the school yard, everybody screaming “Rotten egg! Rotten egg!” and pretending to throw missiles.
- (slang) A closeted transgender person who overcompensates by being actively transphobic.
- 2021 August 14, Violent_Violette, “Is gender dysphoria an exclusively trans experience?”, in Reddit[1], asktransgender, archived from the original on 2022-09-26:
- Or because they themselves experience gender dysphoria but have gone down the rotten egg path.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rotten egg.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rotten, egg.
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