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rotten eggs

rotten eggs is the plural of rotten egg.

Meaning of rotten egg

Noun

rotten egg (plural rotten eggs)

  1. (childish, humorous, idiomatic, slang) A person who is the latest, the last, or the slowest in a group to arrive somewhere or to perform a certain task.
    • Last one there is a rotten egg!
  2. (chiefly transgender slang) An egg (“closeted transgender person”) who overcompensates by being actively transphobic.
    • Or because they themselves experience gender dysphoria but have gone down the rotten egg path.2021 August 14, Violent_Violette, “Is gender dysphoria an exclusively trans experience?”, in Reddit, asktransgender, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rotten, egg.

Questions about rotten eggs

What is rotten eggs the plural of?
Rotten eggs is the plural of rotten egg.

Words near rotten eggs in the dictionary

  1. rotten apples
  2. rotten borough
  3. rotten boroughs
  4. rotten egg
  5. rotten egg gas
  6. rotten eggs
  7. rotten stone
  8. rotten through
  9. rotten to the core
  10. rotten-egg gas
  11. Rottenberg

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