Eggette

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of egg waffle (“egg-shaped waffle popular in Hong Kong”).

    "This takeaway counter serves up some of Hong Kong's best eggettes, the egg-shaped waffles beloved by local children and adults alike."

  2. 2
    An egg-shaped briquet of coal. archaic

    "[…] an eggette or briquette manufacturing contract, where, by the compression of tar with these fine particles of culm, there are made pieces of coal about the size of an egg […]"

Synonyms

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egg waffle

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"This takeaway counter serves up some of Hong Kong's best eggettes, the egg-shaped waffles beloved by local children and adults alike."

Etymology

From egg + -ette.

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