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eggeries

eggeries is the plural of eggery.

Meaning of eggery

Noun

eggery (plural eggeries)

  1. A place where eggs are deposited, produced, sold or kept.
    • A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4
  2. A nest of eggs.

Questions about eggeries

What is eggeries the plural of?
Eggeries is the plural of eggery.

Words near eggeries in the dictionary

  1. Eggenburgian
  2. egger
  3. Egger Island
  4. egger-on
  5. egger-oner
  6. eggeries
  7. eggers
  8. eggers-on
  9. Eggert
  10. Eggertsen
  11. Eggertz

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