bad egg
noun/ˈbæd ɛɡ/US
Etymology
An allusion to an egg that has gone bad or turned rotten.
Definitions
Someone whose behaviour is reprehensible or irresponsible
Someone whose behaviour is reprehensible or irresponsible; a rogue.
- I've been a fairly bad egg, Byrne, for a great many years; but, by George! I'm not entirely rotten yet.
- My son had a drug problem and hired a bad egg as a chief accountant […]
An egg that has gone bad
An egg that has gone bad; a rotten egg.
The neighborhood
- antonymgood egg
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bad egg. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA