Examples
“He cracked the egg on the ground, and a huge dog bounded out of it-it looked exactly like Mik, my own dog from my own city that I had not seen in the span of eight Feasts of Feasts.”
“Allah’s law212 between me and her; for it sufficed her not to take my ass, but she must needs egg on the Moorish barber to tear out my eye-teeth and fire me on both temples. —”
“And the new kitchenmaid had done him a scrambled egg on toast, and Mrs Simpkins had put it across her when she came home, because she said those dried eggs want handling, and the Ram had got its name to keep up.”
“MAGNIROSTRIS) deposits her single egg on the sand, merely carelessly whisking aside the casuarina needles for its reception.”
“‘Dear, dear!’ she observed to her maid Célestine who was removing the plate which had held Mrs. Bradley’s egg on toast.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘egg on’.
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AGRI - horse breeding
place bet, Przewalski's horse, piaffe, genus Claviceps, stadium jumping, draft animal, snaffle bit, noseband, equestrian sport, endurance riding, curb bit, dressage and 678 more...
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phrasal verbs: ON
hinge on, pass on, catch on, egg on, spur on, let on, dawn on, dream on, drag on, count on, ramble on, move on and 3 more...
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
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A Good Egg
Such a versatile word.
good egg, bad egg, egghead, eggbeater, egg slicer, egg tester, egg timer, egg cup, egg gatherer, egg and dart, egg binding, eggplant and 44 more...
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Wilton's words
Favourite words, usages and passages from Nashe's "The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Iacke Wilton" (1594)
doit, dandiprat, weep one's urine ..., snudge, scuppet, langret, fullam, hedgecreeper, pickthanke, go shop the gander, together by the ears, quagmire and 42 more...
Tweets
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yarb Shee set men about him to incense and egge him on in courses of discontentment.
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594 Apr 14, 2010
yarb As for Scipio, he never sat down, but was here, there, and everywhere, fetching and carrying, changing plates and filling bumpers, urging the company to call freely for what they wanted, and egging them on to mirth and jollity.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 10 ch. 9 Oct 9, 2008