Definitions for egg

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Spelling: [eg]

IPA: /ɛg/

Egg is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 6 anagrams from letters in egg (egg).

Definitions for egg

noun

1. the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
2. such a body produced by a domestic bird, especially the hen.
3. the contents of an egg or eggs:
4. anything resembling a hen's egg.
5. Also called egg cell. the female gamete; ovum.
6. Informal. person:
7. Slang. an aerial bomb.

Idioms

1. egg on one's face, Informal. humiliation or embarrassment resulting from having said or done something foolish or unwise:
2. lay an egg, Informal. to fail wretchedly, especially to be unsuccessful in front of an audience:
3. put all one's eggs in one basket, to venture all of something that one possesses in a single enterprise.
4. walk on eggs, to walk or act very cautiously.

verb (used with object)

1. to prepare (food) by dipping in beaten egg.
2. to incite or urge; encourage (usually followed by on).

Origin of egg

before 900; Middle English Old Norse; replacing Middle English ey, Old English ǣg, German Ei egg; akin to Latin ōvum, Greek ōión egg

Examples for egg

We happily hoist our egg nog in the air, embrace each other, and raise our out-of-tune voices in song.

Separate the egg, beat the yolk, and mix it with the potato.

Daubenton took it up, and began carelessly to break an egg with it.

These are made of egg white and sugar and baked in the oven.

Place a pastry circle over each bowl, adhering it with the egg wash.

Brush the pastry with egg wash and sprinkle with fleur de sel and pepper.

Creating PGCs from skin tissue, on the other hand, seems like a walk in the park compared to egg freezing.

Roll in the white of egg and then in flour and sauté in butter.

Remove from the fire at once to prevent the egg from curdling.

egg-laying hens are placed in cages to unnaturally churn out egg after egg.