Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various moths of the family Lasiocampidae, whose larvae often construct tentlike webs among the branches of trees.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who makes a business of collecting eggs, as of birds or turtles.
- n. One who eggs, urges, or incites: usually with on.
- n. In entomology, a reddish-brown moth of either of the genera Lasiocampa and Eriogaster: as, the oak-egger, L. quercus; the grass-egger, L. trifolii; the small egger, E. lacustris.
Wiktionary
- n. One who gathers eggs.
- n. Any of various species of moth, especially the
oak egger-moth, Bombyx quercus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who gathers eggs; an eggler.
- n. One who eggs or incites.
WordNet 3.0
- n. moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults; larvae feed on tree foliage and spin egg-shaped cocoons
Etymologies
- From the shape of its cocoon.
Examples
“The egger missed his target, and was promptly hired by the Cubs.”
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“Though he has not get the chance to get educated, he is very much egger to educate his children.”
“The chance that a ham and egger day is right around the corner and you might remember to bring your camera with you.”
“I know it was a beautifully sunny and warm day, a day the old timers might call a “real ham and egger” day.”
“Then I called Fotis and sayd, Behold how Bacchus the egger and stirrer of Venery, doth offer him self of his owne accord, let us therefore drink up this wine, that we may prepare our selves and get us courage against soone, for Venus wanteth no other provision than this, that the Lamp may be all the night replenished with oyle, and the cups with wine.”
“There can be no doubt, I think, that they egged each other on, but I myself should find it hard to say which was egger-on and which the egged.”
“The gulls, whose season of breeding is soon past, are extravagantly fond of murre eggs; and these rapacious birds follow the egg-gatherers, hover over their heads, and no sooner is a murre's nest uncovered than the bird swoops down, and the egger must be extremely quick, or the gull will snatch the prize from under his nose.”
“But if the gull gets an egg, he flies up with it, and, tossing it up, swallows what he can catch, letting the shell and half its contents fall in a shower upon the luckless and disappointed egger below.”
“The egger therefore stuffs the eggs into his shirt bosom until he has as many as he can safely carry, then clambers over rocks and down precipices until he comes to a place of deposit, where he puts them into baskets, to be carried down to the shore, where there are houses for receiving them.”
“The little coch-a-bonddhu palmer, so killing upon moor streams, may probably be taken for young larvae of the fox and oak-egger moths, abundant on all moors, upon trefoils, and other common plants; but the lowland caterpillars are so abundant and so various in colour that trout must be good entomologists to distinguish them.”
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