Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small, spoon for eating eggs from the shell.
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Examples
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"Why?" he said, very alert like some skorry animal with an egg-spoon in its rooker.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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Miss Standish laid down her egg-spoon, and sat staring at Winifred.
Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin
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On one occasion Lord Mulgrave, who had just been appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, found a broken egg-spoon on the breakfast-table at Walmer, and asked, 'How can
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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"I have no opinion, Lachie," said the old man, snuffing rappee with the butt of an egg-spoon and spilling the brown dust in sheer nervousness over the night-shirt bulging above the band of his breeks.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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With no premonition of what was to come she took her egg-spoon and cracked her egg, an egg laid by one of her own hens.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey
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In such a case use an egg-spoon of bone, or a small cup.
Papers on Health John Kirk
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"There are two points -- yes," replied the Scotland Yard man, whilst Smith paused, egg-spoon in hand, and fixed his keen eyes upon the speaker.
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu Sax Rohmer 1921
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Smith paused, egg-spoon in hand, and fixed his keen eyes upon the speaker.
The Devil Doctor Sax Rohmer 1921
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Her godmother was bonne maman, and her godfather my uncle de Salabéry, who brought her a casket in which was a cup and saucer in enamel and also an enamel egg-cup and tiny, round egg-spoon, and this I thought very silly, since Eliane, like the cockchafer, ate only milk.
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The Rat let his egg-spoon fall on the table-cloth, and sat open-mouthed.
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