egg
see also: Egg
Pronunciation Noun
Egg
Proper noun
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see also: Egg
Pronunciation Noun
egg (plural eggs)
- (zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.
- (countable, uncountable) The egg of a domestic fowl (especially a hen) or its contents, used as food.
- I also determine the minimal amount of egg required to make good mayonnaise.
- We made a big omelette with three eggs.
- The farmer offered me some fresh eggs, but I told him I was allergic to egg.
- (biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.
- Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.
- A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.
- (slang, mildly, pejorative, potentially offensive) A Caucasian who behaves as if they were (East) Asian (from being "white" outside and "yellow" inside).
- (NZ, pejorative) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- Shut up, you egg!
- (informal) A person, fellow.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 19:
- ‘Tom,’ he said, ‘you are looking at a crushed violet, a spent egg, a squeezed tube.’
- good egg
- bad egg
- tough egg
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 19:
- (LGBT, slang) A person who is regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, has not yet come out, or is in the early stages of transitioning.
- 2018, Casey Plett, Little Fish (ISBN 9781551527208), page 24:
- That fits, though, she thought. Wear the same outfit day after day, your brain gets numb to how it looks or feels—Wendy shut the album. No. […] She hated analyzing the whys of [not-out] trans girls. She had always hated it, and she hated how easy it had become; the bottomless hole of egg mode.
- 2018, Casey Plett, Little Fish (ISBN 9781551527208), page 24:
- (computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
- 2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium
- 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.
- 2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium
egg (eggs, present participle egging; past and past participle egged)
- To throw eggs at.
- (cooking) To dip in or coat with beaten egg.
- To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
- After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.
- French: jeter des oeufs
- Portuguese: jogar ovos em
- Spanish: lanzar huevos a, tirar huevos a
egg (eggs, present participle egging; past and past participle egged)
(transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite. - 14th c., William Langland, Piers Plowman, Passus 1,
- Þerinne wonieth a wiȝte · þat wronge is yhote
- Fader of falshed · and founded it hym-selue
- Adam and Eue · he egged to ille
- Conseilled caym · to kullen his brother
- 1571, Arthur Golding, The Psalmes of David and others. With M. John Calvins Commentaries, “Epistle Dedicatorie,”
- […] yit have wee one thing in our selves and of our selves (even originall sinne, concupiscence or lust) which never ceaseth too egge us and allure us from God […]
- 14th c., William Langland, Piers Plowman, Passus 1,
- German: antreiben, anfeuern, anstacheln
- Spanish: incitar, empujar
Egg
Proper noun
- Surname
- (automotive, informal) A Koenigsegg car.
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