egg timer

See also: egg-timer and eggtimer

English

A kitchen timer.

Ticking sound of a kitchen timer.

Noun

egg timer (plural egg timers)

1. A small version of an hourglass used to time the boiling of an egg.
2. (by extension) A timer that can be set to sound an alarm after a certain amount of time; a kitchen timer.
3. (computing) An hourglass mouse pointer.

Hypernyms

• hourglass
• kitchen timer

Translations

timer with an alarm

• Danish: æggeur
• Dutch: eierwekker (nl)
• Finnish: munakello (fi)
• French: (with sand) sablier (fr) m, (mechanical) minuteur (fr) m
• German: Eieruhr (de) f
• Irish: amadóir uibhe m
• Romanian: marcator de timp n, timpizor n, ceas de bucătărie n
• Swedish: äggklocka (sv) c
• Turkish: yumurta zamanlayıcı