egging

Verb (1)

egg (third-person singular simple present eggs, present participle egging, simple past and past participle egged)

1. (transitive) To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
   • The angry demonstrators egged the riot police.
2. (transitive) To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
   • After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.
3. (transitive) To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
   • "Jemima, Jemima!—ve'll ha'e the viting biled instead of fried." "Ca'n't, marm," replied Jemima, "they be all hegged and crumbed, with their tails in their mouths."[1833, [Frederick Marryat], chapter I, in Peter Simple. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 8
4. (intransitive) To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
5. (England, dialectal, intransitive, vulgar) To conceive a child, especially recklessly.
   • I was out with my girlfriend in Birmingham, when some colorful local told us not to egg.

Verb (2)

egg (third-person singular simple present eggs, present participle egging, simple past and past participle egged)

1. (transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
   • [Y]it haue vvee one thing in our ſelues and of our ſelues, (euen originall ſinne, concupiſcence or luſt) vvhich neuer ceaſeth too egge vs and allure vs from God, and too ſtaine vs vvith all kinde of vnclennes: […]1571, Arthur Golding, “To the Right Honorable and His Verie Good Lord Edward de Vere Erle of Oxinford, […]”, in John Calvin, translated by Arthur Golding, The Psalmes of Dauid and Others. With M....

   Synonyms:

   edge, provoke, tempt

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