Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of egg-nog.
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Examples
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They had twirled all the arrows, bought all the jewelry, inspected all the colored eggs, blown at all the spirometers, and tasted all the egg-pop which the festal day re - quired.
Oldport Days 1873
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One or two young farmers 'boys were a little up - roarious with egg-pop, and danced awkward break - downs at the end of the tent.
Oldport Days 1873
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They had twirled all the arrows, bought all the jewelry, inspected all the colored eggs, blown at all the spirometers, and tasted all the egg-pop which the festal day required.
Oldport Days Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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One or two young farmers 'boys were a little uproarious with egg-pop, and danced awkward breakdowns at the end of the tent.
Oldport Days Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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Did not the rows of yellowing Willows and Button-Bushes on each side seem like rows of booths, under which, perhaps, some fluviatile egg-pop equally yellow was effervescing?
Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839
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-- by the Frog-Pond, when there were frogs in and the folks used to come down from the tents on section and Independence days with their pails to get water to make egg-pop with.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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-- by the Frog-Pond, when there were frogs in and the folks used to come down from the tents on section and Independence days with their pails to get water to make egg-pop with.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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