also: <span class="searchmatch">A</span>-<span class="searchmatch">egg</span> <span class="searchmatch">A</span>-<span class="searchmatch">egg</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span>- + <span class="searchmatch">egg</span>, in the first part, the letter "<span class="searchmatch">A</span>" indicated that something was first or the best. Last part from Old Norse <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> n (“<span class="searchmatch">egg</span>”), from...
also: <span class="searchmatch">a</span>-<span class="searchmatch">egg</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span>-<span class="searchmatch">egg</span> <span class="searchmatch">A</span>- + <span class="searchmatch">egg</span>, in the first part, the letter "<span class="searchmatch">A</span>" indicated that something was first or the best. Last part from Old Norse <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> n (“<span class="searchmatch">egg</span>”), from...
eggciting <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> coffee eggcorn <span class="searchmatch">egg</span>-cosy, <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> cosy, <span class="searchmatch">egg</span>-cozy, <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> cozy eggcrate <span class="searchmatch">egg</span>-crated <span class="searchmatch">egg</span>-crate, <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> crate <span class="searchmatch">egg</span>-crating, <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> crating <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> cream eggcup, <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> cup...
Compare Dutch eigeel (“<span class="searchmatch">egg</span> yolk”), German Low German Eigeel (“<span class="searchmatch">egg</span> yolk”), German Eigelb (“<span class="searchmatch">egg</span> yolk”), Swedish äggula (“<span class="searchmatch">egg</span> yolk”). <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> yolk (countable and...
urge on; instigate”), from Old Norse eggja (“to incite”), from <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> (“edge”). More at edge. <span class="searchmatch">A</span> variant of the archaic "edge on." This etymology is incomplete...
eggwhite and <span class="searchmatch">egg</span>-white eggwhite Probably <span class="searchmatch">a</span> remodelled form of Middle English whit of an egge (“white of an <span class="searchmatch">egg</span>”). Compare Old Norse eggja-hvíta (“<span class="searchmatch">egg</span>-white”)...
hard-boiled or soft-boiled. fried <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> poached <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> scrambled <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> boiled <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> (generic) hard-boiled <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> soft-boiled <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> The translations below need to be...
easter <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> and Easter <span class="searchmatch">Egg</span> WOTD – 15 November 2013, 15 November 2014 From Easter + <span class="searchmatch">egg</span>. Cognate with German Low German Ooosterei (“Easter <span class="searchmatch">egg</span>”), Middle...
the same in Cantonese, while <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> rolls usually contain no <span class="searchmatch">egg</span>. <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> roll (plural <span class="searchmatch">egg</span> rolls) <span class="searchmatch">A</span> food made made by wrapping <span class="searchmatch">a</span> combination of chopped vegetables...
poached <span class="searchmatch">egg</span>, scrambled <span class="searchmatch">egg</span>, scromlette 1997 March 20, Kristin Eddy, “<span class="searchmatch">EGGS</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> dozen ways”, in Atlanta Journal Constitution: It's difficult to have <span class="searchmatch">a</span> perfectly...