egg on

1. 1.

   urge on; cause to act

   “The other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window”

   Synonymsprodincite

   Narrowergoosehalloogoad

Questions about egg on

What does egg on mean?

egg on means "urge on; cause to act".

What is another word for egg on?

Close synonyms include prod, incite. 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 on a common word?

egg on is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.