egg

Meaning

Noun

1. An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
2. An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
3. An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
4. Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
5. A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
6. A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
7. A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
8. A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
9. (informal) Senses relating to people.
10. Senses relating to people.
11. Senses relating to people.
12. Senses relating to people.
13. Senses relating to people.
14. (obsolete) Senses relating to people.
15. Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage.
16. One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".

Verb

1. To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
2. To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
3. 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.
4. To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.

Verb

To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).

Concepts

egg

ovum

eggs

testicle

ball

ballock

bollock

nut

orchis

testis

seed

spawn

fruit

ovule

egg cell

encourage

incite

roe

nit

rouse

stir up

ladle

edge on

person

sort

urge on

provoke

tempt

germ

fried egg

had-boiled egg

scrambled egg

circle

circumference

round

ovoid

aerial bomb

chicken egg

vagina

egg white

egg yolk

yolk

stone of fruit

balls

dick

lump

cullion

gonad

full English breakfast

hen’s egg

hot pint

pound cake

gourd

small

item of clothing

louse egg

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɛɡ/

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English eg, egg, egge (“egg of a domestic or wild fowl; egg of a snake”) [and other forms] (originally Northern England and Northeast Midlands), from Old Norse egg (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”) (by Holtzmann’s law), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), probably from *h₂éwis (“bird”), from *h₂ew- (“to clothe oneself, dress; to be dressed”) (in the sense of an animal clothed in feathers). Doublet of huevo, oeuf, and ovum.
The native English ey [and other forms] (plural eyren) (obsolete), from Old English ǣġ, is also derived from Proto-Germanic *ajją. It survived into the 16th century before being fully displaced by egg.
The verb is derived from the noun.

Sentences

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg .