egg Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
  2. noun oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
    eggs.
  3. noun one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
    testis; ball; orchis; nut; ballock; bollock; testicle.
    • she kicked him in the balls and got away
  4. verb throw eggs at
  5. verb coat with beaten egg
    • egg a schnitzel

WordNet

Egg noun
Etymology
OE., fr. Icel. egg; akin to AS. æg (whence OE. ey), Sw. ägg, Dan. æg, G. & D. ei, and prob. to OSlav. aje, jaje, L. ovum, Gr. , Ir. ugh, Gael. ubh, and perh. to L. avis bird. Cf. Oval.
Definitions
  1. (Popularly) The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.
  2. (Biol.) A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.
  3. Anything resembling an egg in form. ✍ Egg is used adjectively, or as the first part of self-explaining compounds; as, egg beater or egg-beater, egg case, egg ladle, egg-shaped, etc.
Egg transitive verb
Etymology
OE. eggen, Icel. eggja, fr. egg edge. . See Edge.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Egged ; present participle & verbal noun Egging
Definitions
  1. To urge on; to instigate; to incite
    Adam and Eve he egged to ill. Piers Plowman.
    [She] did egg him on to tell How fair she was. Warner.

Webster 1913