egg

1. 1.

   throw eggs at

   Broaderpelt
2. 2.

   coat with beaten egg

   “egg a schnitzel”

   Broadercoat

   cooking

Other forms of egg

plural

eggs·

past tense

egged·

present participle

egging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about egg

What does egg mean?

egg means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in egg?

egg has 1 syllable: egg. In IPA it is /ˈɛɡ/.

What is another word for egg?

Close synonyms include eggs, testis, testicle, orchis, ball. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is egg a common word?

egg is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.