Antonyms for egging

Grammar : Verb

Spell : eg

Phonetic Transcription : ɛg

Definition of egging

Origin : mid-14c., from northern England dialect, from Old Norse egg, which vied with Middle English eye, eai (from Old English æg) until finally displacing it after 1500; both are from Proto-Germanic *ajja(m) (cf. Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, Dutch, Old High German, German ei, Gothic ada), probably from PIE *owyo-/*oyyo- "egg" (cf. Old Church Slavonic aja, Russian jajco, Breton ui, Welsh wy, Greek oon, Latin ovum); possibly derived from root *awi- "bird." Caxton (15c.) writes of a merchant (probably a north-country man) in a public house on the Thames who asked for eggs:
And the goode wyf answerde, that she coude speke no frenshe. And the marchaunt was angry, for he also coude speke no frenshe, but wolde have hadde egges, and she understode hym not.
She did, however, recognize another customer's request for "eyren." Bad egg in the figurative sense is from 1855. To have egg on (one's) face "be made to look foolish" is attested by 1948.
[Young & Rubincam] realize full well that a crew can sometimes make or break a show. It can do little things to ruin a program or else, by giving it its best, can really get that all-important rating. They are mindful of an emcee of a variety show who already has been tabbed "old egg in your face" because the crew has managed to get him in such awkward positions on the TV screen. ["Billboard," March 5, 1949]
Eggs Benedict attested by 1898. The figure of speech represented in to have all (one's) eggs in one basket is attested by 1660s.

As in nag : verb harass, bother

Example sentences :

Her friends near by kept nudging her, egging her on to stand her ground.
Extract from : « Mayflower (Flor de mayo) » by Vicente Blasco Ibez

For my own part, I have no liking for war, but you women will be for ever egging us on!
Extract from : « Erling the Bold » by R.M. Ballantyne

Only I shall come along these cliffs, egging or watching the birds, as often as I like.
Extract from : « The Lost Middy » by George Manville Fenn

Bascom and Botcher are egging him on and making him believe he has.
Extract from : « Mr. Crewe's Career, Complete » by Winston Churchill

Napoleon was a burden to them; they overthrew him by egging him on to war of which he was so fond.
Extract from : « The Memoirs of Victor Hugo » by Victor Hugo

Later arrivals dropping in joined them, egging on the inventor.
Extract from : « Stover at Yale » by Owen Johnson

But I suppose everybody all round you was egging you on, and flattering you about it.
Extract from : « The Graftons » by Archibald Marshall

The white of an egg alone may be used for egging them, but not the yolk alone.
Extract from : « The Century Cook Book » by Mary Ronald

I feel sorry for them now, with you and Pamela and Miss South egging them on.
Extract from : « Brenda's Bargain » by Helen Leah Reed

Then Ayres goes on to explain the "egging," through the presentation of a sword by Hunlafing.
Extract from : « Beowulf » by R. W. Chambers

Synonyms for egging

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