egger-on

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English

Etymology

From egg on +‎ -er.

Noun

egger-on (plural eggers-on)

  1. Agent noun of egg on: one who eggs on, one who encourages or provokes another.
    • 1550 , Cicero, anonymous translator, The booke of freendeship of Marcus Tullie Cicero‎, folio 58v:
      let there be an honest likyng, and let flattery the egger on of vice be sette a loufe
    • 1766 January, William Smith, Mirror‎, manuscript, page 4:
      Consult the mirror see it shews / Your Eggers on will turn your foes
    • 2006, James M. Lawson, Jr., “Higher Ground: The Nonviolence Imperative”, in Peter Laarman, editor, Getting on Message: Challenging the Christian Right from the Heart of the Gospel, →ISBN, page 27:
      I no longer hesitated; the next day I spent the lunch hour fighting the older, bigger, and heavier boy. But the eggers-on were disappointed because I was not beaten, despite the headache I carried away.
    • 2008, Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, On the Dot: The Speck That Changed the World, →ISBN, page 163:
      Our heartfelt thanks go out to the goodly fellowship of personal sources, expert witnesses, and eggers-on who have supplied us with many of the cheerful facts and enlightening suggestions that have gone into the making of this book
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