egg

• enPR: ĕg, IPA^(key): /ɛɡ/
• (also) enPR: āg, IPA^(key): /eɪɡ/ (some Canadian and US accents)

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

From Middle English egge, from Old Norse egg (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”) (by Holtzmann's law), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”). Cognate with Icelandic egg (“egg”), Faroese egg (“egg”), Norwegian egg (“egg”), Swedish ägg (“egg”), Danish æg (“egg”). The native English ey (plural eyren), akin to Dutch ei (plural eieren) and German Ei (plural Eier) and ultimately from the same Proto-Germanic root, survived into the 16th century before being fully displaced by egg. More at ey.

egg (plural eggs)

1. (zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.
2. (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.

3. (biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.
   • 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

     Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.

4. Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.
5. A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.
6. (slang, mildly derogatory, potentially offensive) A Caucasian who behaves as if they were (East) Asian (from being "white" outside and "yellow" inside).
7. (New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.

   Shut up, you egg!

8. (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

9. (LGBT) A person who has 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), 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.

10. (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.

• Sranan Tongo: eksi

See egg/translations § Noun.

egg (third-person singular simple present eggs, present participle egging, simple past and past participle egged)

1. To throw eggs at.
2. To dip in or coat with beaten egg (cooking).
3. 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.

• caviar
• roe

From Middle English eggen, from Old Norse eggja (“to incite”), from egg (“edge”).

egg (third-person singular simple present eggs, present participle egging, simple past and past participle egged)

1. (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 […]

• egg on
• over-egg

• egg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (transgender): Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze (2019, →ISBN), page 98

• GGE, Geg, geg

• IPA^(key): [ɛkː]

From Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

egg n (genitive singular egs, plural egg)

1. egg

From the Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”).

egg f (genitive singular eggjar, plural eggjar)

1. blade, edge
2. border, edge of a cliff

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egg

1. Imperative singular of eggen.
2. (colloquial)  First-person singular present of eggen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛkː/
• Rhymes: -ɛkː

From Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm. Cognate with Old English ǣġ (obsolete English ey); Swedish ägg; Old High German ei (German Ei).

egg n (genitive singular eggs, nominative plural egg)

1. (zoology) an egg
2. an oval shaped object
3. the ovum

• (ovum): eggfruma f

From Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”).

Cognates include Old Frisian egg, Old Saxon eggia, Dutch egge; Old English ecg (English edge); Old High German egga (German Ecke); Swedish egg.

The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin aciēs (“edge, sharpness”), Ancient Greek ἀκίς (akís, “point”).

egg f (genitive singular eggjar, nominative plural eggjar)

1. (weaponry) the sharp edge of a knife, sword, or similar
2. a sharp edge on a mountain

• (sharp edge): blað
• (mountain): fjallsegg

• fjallsegg
• með oddi og egg/með oddi og eggju

egg

1. Alternative form of egge (“egg”)

From Old Norse egg n, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

egg n (definite singular egget, indefinite plural egg, definite plural egga or eggene)

1. an egg

   et kokt egg ― a boiled egg

From Old Norse egg f

egg f or m (definite singular egga or eggen, indefinite plural egger, definite plural eggene)

1. (cutting) edge (e.g. of a knife)

• tveegget

• “egg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “egg_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “egg_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡː/ (example of pronunciation)

From Old Norse egg n, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm. Akin to English egg.

egg n (definite singular egget, indefinite plural egg, definite plural egga)

1. an egg

From Old Norse egg f. Akin to English edge.

egg f or m (definite singular egga or eggen, indefinite plural egger or eggar, definite plural eggene or eggane)

1. an edge (the thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe)

• “egg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

egg n (genitive eggs, plural egg)

1. egg

• Icelandic: egg
• Faroese: egg
• Norwegian: egg
• Old Swedish: æg
  • Swedish: ägg
• Danish: æg
• Dalian: egg
• Scanian: ægg
• Westrobothnian: aigg
• → Middle English: egge
  • English: egg
    • Jamaican Creole: eg
  • Scots: eg, egg

From Proto-Germanic *agjō. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).

egg f (genitive eggjar, plural eggjar)

1. edge (of a blade)

• Icelandic: egg
• Faroese: egg
• Norwegian: egg (Bokmål), egg (Nynorsk)
• Old Swedish: eg
  • Swedish: egg
• Danish: æg
• Dalian: egg
• Westrobothnian: aigg

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic‎, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡː/
• Homophone: ägg

egg c

1. The sharp edge of a cutting tool.

• egg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)