egging
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
egging
- present participle and gerund of egg
Noun[edit]
egging (countable and uncountable, plural eggings)
- 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.
- The act of gathering the eggs of wild birds.
- Plover egging was once a popular tradition.
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
egging
- Alternative form of eggyng
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