eggling

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The sale of eggs; the trade of an eggler. archaic,uncountable
    — No eggler will allow eggs to be contaminated, because he wants to sell at the best price he can get […] If the House says it is, then in my opinion the majority of those people must get out of eggling […]
  2. A small, miniature, undersized, or underdeveloped egg.
    — "Ode X" in 1834, Charles L. S. Jones, American Lyrics One Lovling scarcely's fledg'd. One, yet, An eggling still remains; A third, from forth the broken shell, In chirping notes, complains.

词形变化

egglings plural

词源

词源 1
Presumably from *eggle (“to sell eggs”) + -ing. Compare eggler (“seller of eggs”).
词源 2
From egg + -ling.
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