Eggery

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A place where eggs are deposited, produced, sold or kept.

    "A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery."

  2. 2
    A nest of eggs.

Example

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"A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery."

Etymology

From egg + -ery.

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