egg

I UK [eɡ] / US noun
Word forms "egg":
singular egg plural eggs
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1)

a) [countable] the round object with a shell that a female bird produces and a baby bird develops in. The mother bird lays an egg, and later the egg hatches and the baby bird comes out

a hen's/pigeon's/sparrow's egg

an ostrich egg

b) [countable/uncountable] a chicken's egg used as food

We had scrambled eggs for breakfast.

an egg sandwich

2) [countable] a small object produced by a female insect, frog, snake etc, that a young animal comes out of

3) [countable] biology a cell produced inside a woman or female animal that develops into a baby if it is fertilized by a sperm (= a male cell)

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have/get egg on your face — informal to be embarrassed or appear stupid because something that you tried to do has gone wrong

They found themselves out of pocket and with egg on their faces.

- someone can't even boil an egg

- a good egg

- lay an egg

- put all your eggs in one basket

See:

walk I

II UK [eɡ] / US verb
Word forms "egg":
present tense I/you/we/they egg he/she/it eggs present participle egging past tense egged past participle egged

Phrasal verbs:

- egg on