dog egg

noun

Etymology

Probably popularised by the magazine Viz and its spin-off Roger's Profanisaurus books. Compare the Australian slang barker's egg, attested earlier.

1
A lump of dog faeces.
- For the first time a musical collector ‘dog’s egg’ created in the opulent Faberge tradition, capturing magnificently the magic of a fouled footpath.
- Terry was essentially stripped of the armband for boinking Wayne Bridge’s ex, and having a family of roughnecks who were as attractive to tabloid front pages as a nice, fat dog-egg is to a swarm of bluebottles.
- I had chosen to attend the British comedy awards which, once attended, could not be unattended, like the worm-ridden dog egg in the infant school playground which, once seen, cannot be unseen.
2
A worthless or contemptible thing or person.
- You can smile and open your eyes wide and look as though you are showering the recipient with praise, but what you’re actually saying is, “You are a dog egg.”
- Even so, developers Scaly Software couldn’t resist the chance to make a quick buck, and so rushed out this utter dog egg of an update in just eight months.

No curated loop yet for dog 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