fresh country egg
fresh country egg is the singular of fresh country eggs.
Meaning of fresh country eggs
Noun
fresh country eggs pl (normally plural, singular fresh country egg)
- A common way to describe ordinary chicken eggs on a breakfast menu, especially in expensive restaurants and hotels.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fresh, country, eggs.
- It is difficult to see how a user of eggs could afford to pay such prices when fresh country eggs are being sold by farmers to country grocers at this moment for prices ranging above and below 20 cents a dozen in trade.1914, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Farmers' bulletin, numbers 601-625, page 17
Forms of fresh country egg
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Questions about fresh country egg
- What is fresh country egg the singular of?
- Fresh country egg is the singular of fresh country eggs.
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