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egglings

egglings is the plural of eggling.

Meaning of eggling

Noun (1)

eggling (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The sale of eggs; the trade of an eggler.
    • No eggler will allow eggs to be contaminated, because he wants to sell at the best price he can get […] If the House says it is, then in my opinion the majority of those people must get out of eggling […]1938, Ireland. Oireachtas. Dáil, Parliamentary debates; official report, volume 73, page 734

Noun (2)

eggling (plural egglings)

  1. A small, miniature, undersized, or underdeveloped egg.
    • "Ode X" in 1834, Charles L. S. Jones, American Lyrics
      One Lovling scarcely's fledg'd. One, yet,
      An eggling still remains;
      A third, from forth the broken shell,
      In chirping notes, complains.

Questions about egglings

What is egglings the plural of?
Egglings is the plural of eggling.

Words near egglings in the dictionary

  1. Eggleton
  2. eggletonite
  3. Eggletons
  4. egglike
  5. eggling
  6. egglings
  7. eggman
  8. eggmass
  9. eggmasses
  10. eggmen
  11. eggnancy

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