egging
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
egging
- present participle and gerund of egg
Noun edit
egging (countable and uncountable, plural eggings)
- The act of pelting with eggs.
- 2010, Daniel R. Biddle, Murray Dubin, Tasting Freedom, page 167:
- “I stand in relation to him something like that of a child to a parent,” Douglass wrote of the owlish man who had stood with him through mobbings and eggings.
- The act of gathering the eggs of wild birds.
- Plover egging was once a popular tradition.
Middle English edit
Noun edit
egging
- Alternative form of eggyng