egg timer

See also: egg-timer and eggtimer

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Noun

egg timer (plural egg timers)

1. A small version of an hourglass used to time the boiling of an egg.
2. (by extension) A timer that can be set to sound an alarm after a certain amount of time; a kitchen timer.
3. (computing) An hourglass mouse pointer.

Hypernyms

• hourglass
• kitchen timer

Translations

timer with an alarm

Danish: æggeur Dutch: eierwekker (nl) Finnish: munakello (fi) French: (with sand) sablier (fr) m, (mechanical) minuteur (fr) m German: Eieruhr (de) f Irish: amadóir uibhe m Romanian: marcator de timp n, timpizor n, ceas de bucătărie n Swedish: äggklocka (sv) c Turkish: yumurta zamanlayıcı