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egg on (third-person singular simple present eggs on, present participle egging on, simple past and past participle egged on)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To encourage or coax (a person) to do something, especially something foolhardy or reckless.
- Synonym: provoke
1586, William Warner, “The Fourth Booke. Chapter XX.”, in Albions England. Or Historicall Map of the Same Island: , London: George Robinson for Thomas Cadman, , →OCLC, page 86:The Neatreſſe longing for the reſt, did egge him on to tell / How faire ſhe vvas, and vvho ſhe vvas.
1892, chapter 35, in Lesslie Hall, transl., Beowulf:Then I heard that at morning one brother the other / With edges of irons egged on to murder,
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Translations
to encourage or coax (a person) to do something
- Dutch: provoceren (nl), aanzetten tot
- French: pousser à (fr)
- Galician: encirrar (gl), apurrar (gl), enxibar, estrizar, isar, istar, enridar, atouzar (gl), envizcar
- German: anstiften (de), aufstacheln (de), verleiten (de), anspitzen (de) (coll.)
- Greek: παρακινώ (el) (parakinó)
- Icelandic: eggja
- Maori: whakataratara
- Persian: تحریک کردن (fa) (tahrik kardan)
- Portuguese: incitar (pt), provocar (pt)
- Russian: подстрека́ть (ru) impf (podstrekátʹ), подбива́ть (ru) impf (podbivátʹ), подгова́ривать (ru) impf (podgovárivatʹ), нау́ськивать (ru) impf (naúsʹkivatʹ), подзу́живать (ru) impf (podzúživatʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: podstreknuti (sh), podgovoriti (sh)
- Spanish: provocar (es), incitar (es), azuzar (es), cizañar (es)
- Swedish: egga (sv)
- Turkish: doldurmak (tr)
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