egg
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- enPR: ĕg, IPA(key): /ɛɡ/
- (also) enPR: āg, IPA(key): /eɪɡ/ (some Canadian and US accents)
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛɡ
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English egge, from Old Norse egg (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”) (by Holtzmann's law), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”). Cognate with Icelandic egg (“egg”), Faroese egg (“egg”), Norwegian egg (“egg”), Swedish ägg (“egg”), Danish æg (“egg”).
The native English ey (plural eyren), akin to Dutch ei (plural eieren) and German Ei (plural Eier) are ultimately from the same Proto-Germanic root, survived into the 16th century before being fully displaced by egg. More at ey.
Alternative formsEdit
- egge (obsolete)
NounEdit
egg (plural eggs)
- (zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.
- (countable, uncountable) The egg of a domestic fowl (especially a hen) or its contents, used as food.
- I also determine the minimal amount of egg required to make good mayonnaise.
- We made a big omelette with three eggs.
- The farmer offered me some fresh eggs, but I told him I was allergic to egg.
- (biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.
- 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
- Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
- Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.
- A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.
- (slang, mildly derogatory, potentially offensive) A Caucasian who behaves as if they were (East) Asian (from being "white" outside and "yellow" inside).
- (New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- Shut up, you egg!
- (archaic, derogatory) A young person.
- 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark:
- What, you egg!
- 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark:
- (informal) A person, fellow.
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 31:
- ‘Some big, hard-boiled egg meets up with a pretty face, and bingo! He cracks up and melts.’
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 19:
- ‘Tom,’ he said, ‘you are looking at a crushed violet, a spent egg, a squeezed tube.’
- good egg
- bad egg
- tough egg
- (LGBT, slang) A person who is regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, has not yet come out, or is in the early stages of transitioning.
- 2018, Casey Plett, Little Fish (→ISBN), page 24:
- That fits, though, she thought. Wear the same outfit day after day, your brain gets numb to how it looks or feels—Wendy shut the album. No. […] She hated analyzing the whys of [not-out] trans girls. She had always hated it, and she hated how easy it had become; the bottomless hole of egg mode.
- 2018, Casey Plett, Little Fish (→ISBN), page 24:
- (computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
- 2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium
- This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.
- 2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium
- (Internet slang, derogatory) A user of the microblogging service Twitter who has the default egg avatar rather than a custom picture.
Derived termsEdit
- bad egg
- boiled egg
- coddled egg
- cuckoo's egg
- curate's egg
- don't put all your eggs in one basket
- Easter egg
- egg and spoon race
- egg beaters
- egg cup
- egg flip
- egg-nog, eggnog
- egg on one's face
- egg-shell, eggshell
- eggs in moonshine
- egg tart
- egg-timer
- egg white
- egg yolk
- fried egg
- golden egg
- good egg
- go suck an egg
- kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
- lay an egg
- nest egg
- poached egg
- power-egg
- scrambled egg, scrambled eggs
- sure as eggs is eggs
- with egg on one's face
- yoni egg
DescendantsEdit
TranslationsEdit
VerbEdit
egg (third-person singular simple present eggs, present participle egging, simple past and past participle egged)
- To throw eggs at.
- (cooking) To dip in or coat with beaten egg.
- To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
- After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English eggen, from Old Norse eggja (“to incite”), from egg (“edge”).
VerbEdit
egg (third-person singular simple present eggs, present participle egging, simple past and past participle egged)
- (transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite.
- 14th c., William Langland, Piers Plowman, Passus 1,[1]
- Þerinne wonieth a wiȝte · þat wronge is yhote
- Fader of falshed · and founded it hym-selue
- Adam and Eue · he egged to ille
- Conseilled caym · to kullen his brother
- 1571, Arthur Golding, The Psalmes of David and others. With M. John Calvins Commentaries, “Epistle Dedicatorie,”[2]
- […] yit have wee one thing in our selves and of our selves (even originall sinne, concupiscence or lust) which never ceaseth too egge us and allure us from God […]
- 14th c., William Langland, Piers Plowman, Passus 1,[1]
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
Further readingEdit
egg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - (transgender): Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze (2019, →ISBN), page 98
AnagramsEdit
FaroeseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.
NounEdit
egg n (genitive singular egs, plural egg)
DeclensionEdit
| n23 | Singular | Plural | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | egg | eggið | egg | eggini |
| Accusative | egg | eggið | egg | eggini |
| Dative | eggi | egginum | egg(j)um | egg(j)unum |
| Genitive | egs | egsins | eggja | eggjanna |
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From the Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”).
NounEdit
egg f (genitive singular eggjar, plural eggjar)
DeclensionEdit
| f8 | Singular | Plural | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | egg | eggin | eggjar | eggjarnar |
| Accusative | egg | eggina | eggjar | eggjarnar |
| Dative | egg | eggini | eggjum | eggjunum |
| Genitive | eggjar | eggjarinnar | eggja | eggjanna |
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
VerbEdit
egg
IcelandicEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm. Cognate with Old English ǣġ (obsolete English ey); Swedish ägg; Old High German ei (German Ei).
NounEdit
egg n (genitive singular eggs, nominative plural egg)
DeclensionEdit
SynonymsEdit
- (ovum): eggfruma f
Derived termsEdit
- arnaregg (“eagle's egg”)
- dúfuegg (“dove's egg”)
- eggjahvíta (“egg white”)
- eggjarauða, eggjablómi (“egg yolk”)
- hrafnsegg (“raven's egg”)
- höggormsegg (“snake's egg”)
- liggja á eggjum (“to brood, sit on eggs”)
- verpa eggi (“to lay an egg”)
- álptaregg (“swan's egg”)
- æðaregg (“eider duck's egg”)
- eggjasalad
- eggjaskurn
- kríuegg
- páskaegg
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”).
Cognates include Old Frisian egg, Old Saxon eggia, Dutch egge; Old English ecg (English edge); Old High German egga (German Ecke); Swedish egg.
The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin aciēs (“edge, sharpness”), Ancient Greek ἀκίς (akís, “point”).
NounEdit
egg f (genitive singular eggjar, nominative plural eggjar)
DeclensionEdit
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
egg
- Alternative form of egge (“egg”)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse egg n (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), which is likely a vṛddhi derivative of *h₂éwis (“bird”). Cognate with English egg (“egg”), Icelandic egg (“egg”), Faroese egg (“egg”), Swedish ägg (“egg”), Danish æg (“egg”).
NounEdit
egg n (definite singular egget, indefinite plural egg, definite plural egga or eggene)
- an egg
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
egg f or m (definite singular egga or eggen, indefinite plural egger, definite plural eggene)
- (cutting) edge (e.g. of a knife)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “egg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “egg_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “egg_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian NynorskEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse egg n, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm. Akin to English egg.
NounEdit
egg n (definite singular egget, indefinite plural egg, definite plural egga)
- an egg
InflectionEdit
Historical inflection of egg
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Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse egg f, from Proto-Germanic *agjō f (“edge, corner”), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eḱ-. Cognates include English edge and German Ecke.
NounEdit
egg f or m (definite singular eggen or egga, indefinite plural eggar or egger, definite plural eggane or eggene)
- an edge (the thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe)
- (geology) an arête
InflectionEdit
Historical inflection of egg
Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ReferencesEdit
- “egg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old NorseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.
NounEdit
egg n (genitive eggs, plural egg)
DeclensionEdit
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Proto-Germanic *agjō. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).
NounEdit
egg f (genitive eggjar, plural eggjar)
- edge (of a blade)
DeclensionEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic[3], Oxford: Clarendon Press
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
egg c
- The sharp edge of a cutting tool.
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of egg | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | egg | eggen | eggar | eggarna |
| Genitive | eggs | eggens | eggars | eggarnas |