egg

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 ĕg

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. countable,uncountable
    — The Eſtrich (whoſe fethers are fayrer thẽ yᵉ wynges of the ſparow hauke) whẽ he hath layd his egges vpon the grounde, he bredeth them in the duſt, and forgetteth them: ſo that they might be troden with feete, or broken with ſomme wilde beaſt.
  2. 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.; The (usually) non-developing, edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food. countable,specifically
    — We made a big omelette with three eggs for breakfast.
  3. 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.; A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg. broadly,countable
  4. Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell. also,countable,uncountable
    — In the Fall into the division of labor, [Claude] Lévi-Strauss sees the great hunters trading women to create the exogamous bonds of one hunting band with another. The egg is, but the sperm does. The tiny sperm may be furious in its activity, but its highway to the egg is paved by the alkaline trail set down by the Great Mother.
  5. A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1). countable
    — 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.
  6. A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).; A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury. countable,uncountable
  7. A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).; Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes. countable,uncountable
  8. A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).; A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg. countable,uncountable
  9. A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).; A bomb or mine. countable,dated,uncountable
  10. A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).; A would-be spark, especially one created by an overweight spaceship and that leads to a pattern's destruction. countable,uncountable
  11. Senses relating to people.; A person; a fellow. countable,dated,figuratively,informal,uncountable
    — a bad egg    a good egg    a tough egg    Cheerio, old egg!
  12. Senses relating to people.; A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia. countable,derogatory,ethnic,figuratively,rare
  13. Senses relating to people.; A user of the microblogging service Twitter identified by the default avatar (historically an image of an egg (sense 1.1.1)) rather than a custom image; hence, a newbie or noob. Internet,countable,dated,derogatory,figuratively
  14. Senses relating to people.; A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — 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.
  15. Senses relating to people.; A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning.; One's lack of awareness that one is transgender. broadly,countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — to crack someone's egg
  16. Senses relating to people.; A foolish or obnoxious person. New-Zealand,countable,derogatory,figuratively,uncountable
    — Shut up, you egg!
  17. Senses relating to people.; A young person. countable,derogatory,figuratively,obsolete,uncountable
    — VVhat you Egge? / Yong fry of Treachery?
  18. Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage. archaic,countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — [S]oe Power of Warre / From the firſt Egge of Libertie, out-Creepes / A fatall Serpent; […]
  19. One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes". countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something). transitive
    — The angry demonstrators egged the riot police.
  2. To encourage, incite, or urge (someone). transitive
    — [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: […]
  3. To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape. transitive
    — After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.
  4. 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. transitive
    — "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."
  5. To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds. intransitive
  6. To conceive a child, especially recklessly. England,dialectal,intransitive,vulgar
    — I was out with my girlfriend in Birmingham, when some colorful local told us not to egg.

词形变化

eggs plural egge alternative,obsolete eggs present,singular,third-person egging participle,present egged participle,past egged past egge alternative,obsolete eggs present,singular,third-person egging participle,present egged participle,past egged past no-table-tags table-tags glossary inflection-template egg infinitive egg first-person,present,singular egged first-person,past,singular egg present,second-person,singular eggest archaic,present,second-person,singular egged past,second-person,singular eggedst archaic,past,second-person,singular eggs present,singular,third-person eggeth archaic,present,singular,third-person egged past,singular,third-person egg plural,present egged past,plural egg present,subjunctive egged past,subjunctive egg imperative,present - imperative,past egging participle,present egged participle,past agg alternative,dialectal

词汇关系

衍生词
afteregg American hand-egg an egg's age ant egg armadillo egg Arzak egg a wild goose never laid a tame egg bad egg bald as a peeled 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 don't put all your eggs in one basket dropped egg duck egg duck-egg blue Easter egg egg and dart egg and spoon race eggball egg banjo egg bank egg beater eggbeater egg Benedict egg-bird egg-bound eggbox egg bread eggburger egg burster egg butter egg capsule egg-capsule egg carton egg case egg cell eggcellent eggceptional eggciting egg coffee eggcorn egg-cosy egg cosy egg-cozy egg cozy eggcrate egg-crated egg-crate egg crate egg-crating egg crating egg cream eggcup egg cup egg custard egg custard tart egg cutter egg dance egg donation egg drop egg drop soup egg drop syndrome egg-eater eggel eggery eggetarian eggette eggflation egg flip egg flower soup eggfly egg foo young egg fruit eggfruit Egg Harbor Egg Harbor City egghead eggheaded egg-hot egghot egg hunt eggie egg in a basket egg in a hole egg-in-a-hole egg in a nest egg in one's beer egg-in-the-hole egglayer egglaying eggless egglike eggling eggman eggmass egg matza egg matzah egg matzo egg mayonnaise egg moon eggnancy eggnant eggnog egg nog egg noodle egg of Columbus egg on horseback egg on one's face egg pasta eggplant egg-plant egg pod egg prime directive egg punk egg replacer egg ring egg roll egg rolling egg sac eggsactly egg salad egg sandwich egg-shaped eggshell eggs in moonshine egg slice eggsperience egg spoon eggspot egg squash eggstraordinary eggstravaganza eggstring egg tart eggtimer egg-timer egg timer egg tooth egg topper eggtray egg waffle egg wash egg whisk egg-white egg white eggwich eggwoman egg wrack eggy eggyolk egg yolk Faberge egg framed egg fresh country egg fried egg fried-egg plant garden egg gas-house egg gashouse egg golden egg golden egg bug good egg goose egg go suck an egg guggy egg handegg hand-egg hobo egg hundred-year egg jade egg kill the goose that lays the golden eggs lash egg laundry egg lay an egg long egg love egg marble egg millennium egg nest egg nonegg one's egg breaks one's egg cracks Orphic egg over-egg the pudding pace egg pace-egg Pascha egg Pasch egg paste-egg paste egg philosopher's egg pickled egg picnic egg pizza eggs poached egg poached egg daisy pouched egg power-egg power egg preserved egg put an egg in one's shoe and beat it red egg robin egg blue robin's-egg blue rolex rotten egg rotten-egg gas rotten egg gas Russian egg salted egg Schneider egg scotch egg scrambled egg scrambled eggs scrambled egg slime mold sea egg smooth as eggs son-in-law egg steamed egg stink egg superegg sure as eggs is eggs tea egg there's more than one way to cook an egg there's more than one way to crack an egg thousand-year egg thousand-year-old egg thunderegg thunder egg twenty-minute egg Ukrainian Easter egg vegetable egg vegetarian egg whore's egg wind egg witch's egg wobbly egg world egg yoni egg egger egging over-egg
相关词
oo- oval ovo- ovum caviar roe

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English eggen (“to urge on; to entice, incite, lure, tempt; to encourage, exhort, stimulate; (reflexive) to bestir (oneself); to challenge, taunt; to enrage, irritate”), from Old English eggian (“to egg, excite”), from Old Norse eggja (“to incite, egg on”), from egg (“an edge”), from Proto-Germanic *agjō (“a corner; an edge”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).
Cognates
* Danish ægge, egge (“to incite, egg on; to excite, rouse”)
* Swedish egga (“to excite, egg on”)
* Faroese eggja (“to incite, egg on; to sharpen”)
* Icelandic eggja (“to incite, egg on”)
* Old English ġeeġġian (“to incite, egg on”)
* Old Frisian eggia (“to fence”)
* Middle Low German eggen (“to sharpen”)
* Old High German ungiekkōt (“unworked, unformed”)
* Middle High German ecken (“to sharpen”), German ecken (archaic)
Compare typologically another cognate: Russian поощря́ть (pooščrjátʹ), akin to Russian о́стрый (óstryj), ultimately from the same PIE root.
Also compare typologically noncognate: Bulgarian потиквам (potikvam), Czech nabádat (“urge, exhort”), Russian подстрека́ть (podstrekátʹ).
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