egging

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɡɪŋ/

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Verb

egging

1. present participle and gerund of egg

Noun

egging (countable and uncountable, plural eggings)

1. The act of pelting with eggs.
   • 2010, Daniel R. Biddle, Murray Dubin, Tasting Freedom, page 167:

     “I stand in relation to him something like that of a child to a parent,” Douglass wrote of the owlish man who had stood with him through mobbings and eggings.

2. The act of gathering the eggs of wild birds.

   Plover egging was once a popular tradition.

Derived terms

• turtle-egging

Middle English

Noun

egging

1. alternative form of eggyng