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egg

noun
/ˈɛɡ/

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English eg, egg, egge (“egg of a domestic or wild fowl; egg of a snake”) [and other forms] (originally Northern England and Northeast Midlands), from Old Norse egg (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”) (by Holtzmann’s law), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), probably from *h₂éwis (“bird”), from *h₂ew- (“to consume”). Doublet of huevo, oeuf, and ovum. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian ai (“egg”), Saterland Frisian Oai (“egg”), West Frisian aai, aei (“egg”), Bavarian Oa (“egg”), Dutch ei (“egg”), German Ei (“egg”), German Low German Ai, Ägg (“egg”), Limburgish ei, Éï (“egg”), Luxembourgish Ee (“egg”), Mòcheno oi (“egg”), Vilamovian e (“egg”), Yiddish איי (ey, “egg”), Danish æg (“egg”), Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk egg (“egg”), Swedish ägg (“egg”), Crimean Gothic ada (“egg”); also Breton vi (“egg”), Cornish oy (“egg”), Welsh wy (“egg”), Latin ōvum (“egg”), Greek αβγό (avgó), αυγό (avgó, “egg”), Albanian vo (“egg”), Belarusian and Russian яйцо́ (jajcó, “egg”), Bulgarian яйце́ (jajcé, “egg”), Czech vejce (“egg”), Macedonian јајце (jajce, “egg”), Polish jajo (“egg”), Serbo-Croatian ја́јце, jájce (“egg”), Slovak vajce (“egg”), Slovene jájce (“egg”), Ukrainian яйце́ (jajcé, “egg”), Ossetian айк (ajk), айкӕ (ajkæ, “egg”), Armenian ձու (ju, “egg”), Northern Kurdish hêk (“egg”), Southern Kurdish خا (xa, “egg”), Zazaki hak (“egg”), Pashto هګۍ (hagë́y), ويه (wë́ya, “egg”), Persian خاگ (xâg), خایه (xâye, “egg”). The native English ey [and other forms] (plural eyren) (obsolete), from Old English ǣġ, is also derived from Proto-Germanic *ajją. It survived into at least c. 16th century before being fully displaced by egg. The verb is derived from the noun.

  1. derived from *h₂eḱ-✻ — “sharp”
  2. derived from *agjō✻ — “a corner; an edge”
  3. derived from eggja — “to incite, egg on”
  4. inherited from eggian — “to egg, excite”
  5. inherited from eggen — “to urge on; to entice, incite, lure, tempt; to encourage, exhort, stimulate; (reflexive) to bestir (oneself); to challenge, taunt; to enrage, irritate”

Definitions

  1. An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and…

    An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.

    • [T]hinke him as a Serpents egge, / VVhich hatch'd, vvould as his kinde grovv mischieuous; / And kill him in the ſhell.
    • An egg properly is that, out of a part vvhereof a living creature is produced, and the reſidue is meat for it, improperly that is an egg out of the vvhole vvhereof, a living creature is bred, as the eggs of Spiders, Ants, Flies.

  2. Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”)

    Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.

  3. A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).

    • His ſtomacke vvas queaſie (for comming there Coacht) / The jogging had caus’d ſome crudities riſe; / To help it he call’d for a Puritan poacht, / That uſed to turne up the egg’s of his eyes.
  4. ›+ 15 more definitions

    1. Senses relating to people.

      • a bad egg    a good egg    a tough egg    Cheerio, old egg!
      • 'Good egg!' quoth Moorshed, and brought his hand down on the wide shoulders with the smack of a beaver's tail.
      • Walter. The woman we passed as we came in just now. Is it his wife? / Cokeson. No, no relation. [Restraining what in jollier circumstances would have been a wink] A married person, though. […] James. A real bad egg.

    2. Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage.

      • [S]oe Power of Warre / From the firſt Egge of Libertie, out-Creepes / A fatall Serpent; […]
      • In ſhort, the Rebellion had been Cruſh'd in the Egg; and One Seaſonable Act of Rigour, had Sav'd the King, the Monarchy, the Church, and the Three Kingdoms.

    3. One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain…

      One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".

      • This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.

    4. To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).

      • The angry demonstrators egged the riot police.
      • The students were caught egging the principal’s car as a prank.
      • Like I said before in that chapter, after that ultimate egging, Gay-D didn't mention anything about eggs again, but he meekly ask for us to stop egging Xander's door so that he wouldn't get blamed.

    5. To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such…

      To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.

      • After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.

    6. To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense…

      To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.

      • "Jemima, Jemima!—ve'll ha'e the viting biled instead of fried." "Ca'n't, marm," replied Jemima, "they be all hegged and crumbed, with their tails in their mouths."

    7. To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.

    8. To conceive a child, especially recklessly.

      • I was out with my girlfriend in Birmingham, when some colorful local told us not to egg.

    9. To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).

      • [Y]it haue vvee one thing in our ſelues and of our ſelues, (euen originall ſinne, concupiſcence or luſt) vvhich neuer ceaſeth too egge vs and allure vs from God, and too ſtaine vs vvith all kinde of vnclennes: […]
      • Hope like a ſpurre pricketh forvvard, feare like a bridle reſtraineth, hope eggeth onvvard vnto vertue, feare pulleth backe from vice, hope incites vs to obſerue the lavv, feare makes vs feare to trãſgreſſe the lavve.

    10. A surname.

    11. A Koenigsegg car.

    12. The character Solas from the Dragon Age franchise (referring to his baldness).

      • Heh, i don't think she was that cunning to begin with, but romancing the Egg has rubbed off on her ;D.
      • I'm a big fan of the Egg because he's so complex and intriguing.
      • Either BioWare got a new voice actor for The Egg (derogatory) or Dragon Age: Dreadwolf will feature another villain to contest against — and knowing Dragon Age like I do, it’s likely the latter.

    13. A market town in Bregenz district, Vorarlberg, Austria.

    14. A municipality in Uster district, Zürich canton, Switzerland.

    15. Initialism of electroglottography.

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Derived

afteregg, American hand-egg, an egg's age, ant egg, armadillo egg, Arzak egg, a wild goose never laid a tame egg, bad egg, barn egg, better an egg today than a hen tomorrow, boiled egg, butter-and-egg man, butter-and-egg money, century egg, chicken and egg, chicken-and-egg, chicken-and-egg problem, chicken-and-egg question, chicken and egg question, chicken-or-egg question, chicken or egg question, chicken-and-egg situation, chicken or egg, chucky egg, cloud egg, cock egg, coddled egg, colored egg, Columbus egg, cosmic egg, cracked as an egg, crack someone's egg, crack the egg, cuckoo's egg, curate's egg, darning egg, deviled egg, devilled egg, dippy egg, dog egg · +232 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at egg. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at egg. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at egg

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA