Egging

//ˈɛɡɪŋ// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of pelting with eggs. countable, uncountable

    "“I stand in relation to him something like that of a child to a parent,” Douglass wrote of the owlish man who had stood with him through mobbings and eggings."

  2. 2
    The act of gathering the eggs of wild birds. countable, uncountable

    "Plover egging was once a popular tradition."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of egg form-of, gerund, participle, present

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"He was egging an innocent young man on to join him in his crooked deal."

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