nest egg

English

Noun

nest egg (plural nest eggs)

1. A natural or artificial egg placed in a bird's nest, to encourage the bird to lay its own eggs there.
   • Patent No. 211,363 was issued on Jan. 14, 1879 to O. F. Woodward for a Nest-Egg:

     My improvement relates to artificial eggs composed of a substance which is offensive to insects, the object being to render the same effective, not only as a nest-egg, but also as a destroyer of vermin.

2. (idiomatic) A savings; a reserve of money.

   Over time, they accumulated a tidy nest egg and retired comfortably.

Translations

egg placed in a bird's nest

Finnish: pesämuna (fi), munitusmuna (fi)

savings

Catalan: coixí (pillow) Dutch: appeltje voor de dorst (nl) Finnish: pesämuna (fi)

Hungarian: dugipénz (hu) Italian: gruzzolo (it) m.