eggling
Pronunciations (2)
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/ɛɡ.l̩.ɪŋ/
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/ɛɡ.lɪŋ/
Noun
The sale of eggs; the trade of an eggler.
Usage- Archaic
- Uncountable
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No eggler will allow eggs to be contaminated, because he wants to sell at the best price he can get […] If the House says it is, then in my opinion the majority of those people must get out of eggling […]
The death of Dobbin of old age had put an end to his master's eggling, for he had no capital with which to buy another horse.
Noun
A small, miniature, undersized, or underdeveloped egg.
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"Ode X" in 1834, Charles L. S. Jones, American Lyrics One Lovling scarcely's fledg'd. One, yet, An eggling still remains; A third, from forth the broken shell, In chirping notes, complains.
But now the little Other eggling was making loud peeping sounds. It was hungry.
Word forms
egglings