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dog-egg

dog-egg is the alternative spelling of dog egg.

Meaning of dog egg

Noun

dog egg (plural dog eggs)

  1. (UK, humorous, slang, vulgar) A lump of dog faeces.
    • For the first time a musical collector ‘dog’s egg’ created in the opulent Faberge tradition, capturing magnificently the magic of a fouled footpath.1997 October–November, “The Legendary Faberge Musical Dog’s Egg”, in Viz, number 86, page 2
    Synonyms:
    barker's egg
  2. (UK, derogatory, humorous, slang, vulgar) A worthless or contemptible thing or person.
    • The fact is Electronic Arts is slowly but surely swallowing up every game, every developer, every THING. It's spitting out anything that resembles originality and crapping out a conveyor belt of similar looking, similar smelling gaming dog-eggs.2005 April, “Review: TimeSplitters: Future Perfect”, in Nintendo Official Magazine, number 152, page 66

Forms of dog-egg

pluraldog-eggs

Questions about dog-egg

What is dog-egg the alternative spelling of?
Dog-egg is the alternative spelling of dog egg.

Words near dog-egg in the dictionary

  1. dog-eared
  2. dog-earedness
  3. dog-earing
  4. dog-ears
  5. dog-eat-dog
  6. dog-egg
  7. dog-end
  8. dog-ends
  9. dog-faced baboon
  10. dog-faced baboons
  11. dog-fennel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dog-egg (page history and authors); dog egg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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