egg

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noun

Plural noun:

eggsegge

1.
(countable, uncountable)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.
2.
(also, countable, uncountable)Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
Đồng nghĩa: ovum
3.
(countable)A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
4.
Senses relating to people.
5.
(archaic, countable, figuratively, uncountable)Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage.
6.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".

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verb

V_es/s

eggs

V_ing/Gerund

egging

V_ed/pp

eggedegge

1.
(transitive)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.
2.
(transitive)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.
3.
(transitive)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.
4.
(intransitive)To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
5.
(England, dialectal, intransitive, vulgar)To conceive a child, especially recklessly.
I was out with my girlfriend in Birmingham, when some colorful local told us not to egg.
6.
(transitive)(transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
Đồng nghĩa: edge, provoke, tempt

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine h₂éwis The noun is derived from Middle English eg, egg, egge (egg of a domestic or wild fowl; egg of a snake) 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). huevo oeuf ovum.