Definition of egg

"egg" in the noun sense

1. egg

animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds

2. egg, eggs

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

3. testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, egg

one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

"she kicked him in the balls and got away"

"egg" in the verb sense

1. egg

throw eggs at

2. egg

coat with beaten egg

"egg a schnitzel"

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Quotations for egg

Bad hen, bad egg. [ Proverb ]

An egg and to bed. [ Proverb ]

His egg has two yolks. [ Proverb ]

Kill a cockatrice in the egg. [ Proverb ]

It is very hard to shave an egg. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

But one egg, and that addled too. [ Proverb ]

A black hen will lay a white egg. [ Proverb ]

From the beginning (from the egg).

You cackle often but never lay an egg. [ Proverb ]

Your egg is ready roasted to your hand. [ Proverb ]

He that steals an egg will steal an ox. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Better half an egg than an empty shell. [ Proverb ]

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid. [ Cowper ]

Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow. [ Proverb ]

He never was good, neither egg nor bird. [ Proverb ]

As good be an addled egg as an idle bird. [ Proverb ]

You may truss up all his wit in an egg-shell. [ Proverb ]

Gone is the goose that the great egg did lay. [ Proverb ]

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,
In every bosom where her nest is made.
Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,
And proves a raging scorpion in his breast. [ Cowper ]

Send not for an hatchet to break open an egg with. [ Proverb ]

He swallows the egg and gives away the shell in alms. [ German Proverb ]

Prate is prate, but it is the duck that lays the egg. [ Proverb ]

They dispute about an egg, and let the hens fly away. [ German Proverb ]

It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today. [ Proverb ]

Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is as hard a thing as to sail over the sea in an egg-shell. [ Proverb ]

They have need of a canny cook that have but one egg for their dinner. [ Proverb ]

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing. [ Feltham ]

Never use a hammer to break an egg, when you can do it with a pen-knife. [ Proverb ]

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. [ George Eliot ]

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]

egg in Scrabble®

The word egg is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters egg:

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egg in Words With Friends™

The word egg is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters egg:

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The 15 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In egg

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Words within the letters of egg

3 letter words in egg (1 word)

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Longer words containing egg

arpeggiate arpeggiated

arpeggiate arpeggiates

arpeggiating

arpeggiator arpeggiators

arpeggio arpeggios

eggar beggar beggared

eggar beggar beggaring

eggar beggar beggarlike

eggar beggar beggarliness

eggar beggar beggarly

eggar beggar beggars

eggar beggar beggarweed beggarweeds

eggar beggar beggary

eggar eggars beggars

eggbeater eggbeaters

eggcase eggcases

eggcrate eggcrates

eggcup eggcups

eggdrop

egged begged outbegged

egged legged bandylegged bandyleggedness

egged legged barelegged

egged legged blacklegged

egged legged bootlegged

egged legged bowlegged bowleggedness

egged legged crosslegged

egged legged doglegged

egged legged longlegged

egged legged peglegged

egged legged shortlegged

egged pegged repegged

egged pegged unpegged

egged vegged

egger bootlegger bootleggers

egger eggers bootleggers

egghead eggheaded eggheadedness

egghead eggheads

eggier dreggier

eggiest dreggiest

egginess legginess

egging begging outbegging

egging legging blacklegging

egging legging bootlegging

egging legging doglegging

egging legging leggings

egging repegging

egging unpegging

egglaying

eggless

egglike

eggnog eggnogs

eggplant eggplants

eggroll eggrolls

eggs eggshaped

eggs eggshell eggshells

eggs yeggs

eggwash eggwashes

eggwhite eggwhites

eggy dreggy

eggy eggyolk eggyolks

eggy leggy

eggy muskeggy

nestegg

nonegg

reggae

veggie veggieburger veggieburgers

veggie veggies

yegg yeggman

yegg yeggmen

yegg yeggs