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Wiktionary

  1. n. Plural form of egg.
  2. v. third-person singular simple present indicative form of egg.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food

Etymologies

  1. Middle English egge, bird's egg, from Old Norse egg; see awi- in Indo-European roots.Middle English eggen, from Old Norse eggja; see ak- in Indo-European roots.

Examples

  • “I was totally horrified by the teatime set they served – soft-boiled eggs with eggshell fragments, soy sauce bottles with caps that fall off when you try to flavour your eggs…”

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  • “Despite FDA inspections that found US hatcheries injecting antibiotics directly into eggs* and studies that detect antibiotic residue in egg yolks of treated chickens even after withdrawal periods and cooking, + antibiotics are not "a food safety issue for eggs" said Blair Van Zetten, on Behalf of United Egg Producers at the hearings.”

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  • “Gathering and selling the eggs is also prohibited.”

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  • “The number of birds required to produce the eggs is astounding.”

    Medpundit

  • “For example, the consumption of eggs, which is nearly a perfect food-there are more vitamins in eggs than in any other one food-in Canada is 284 eggs per year per head, in Germany it is only 129 and in Italy, 119.”

    Australia and the Empire

  • “Supper consisted of chicory served with the water it had been boiled in, to which was added some oil; there was also bread and wine, then chicken and afterwards poached eggs which they call eggs in their shirtsleeves.”

    Diversions in Sicily

  • “A now-closed restaurant in our old hometown used to make what they called eggs commodore: poached egg and hollandaise, yes, but breakfast sausage instead of canadian bacon, and perched on puff pastry instead of an english muffin.”

    divine angst

  • “Don't mean to rain on your parade, but "eggs" is also a slang term for testicles.”

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  • “Peruyero boasts that his program trains dogs to distinguish the legitimate threats of live bugs and eggs from the dead bugs, cast skins, hatched eggs, and fecal matter whose detection can prompt unnecessary pest bombing.”

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‘eggs’ has been looked up 1038 times, added to 12 lists, and has a Scrabble score of 6.