Antonyms for egged

Grammar : Verb

Spell : eg

Phonetic Transcription : ɛg

Definition of egged

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 :

“Alack for the unhappy lads; and alack for those who egged them on,” said the priest.
Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge

They were Christians who stoned him, champions of religion, and they were egged on by the clergy.
Extract from : « We Two » by Edna Lyall

They had made him believe that I egged the bey on to forbid him the country.
Extract from : « The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Alphonse Daudet

It was all his doing, she said; he had egged Arthur on; she supposed Arthur had bets.
Extract from : « That Stick » by Charlotte M. Yonge

Mrs. Shimerda egged them on, chuckling while she gobbled her food.
Extract from : « My Antonia » by Willa Cather

That old aunt has egged her on, and she's doing this for her mother's sake.
Extract from : « A Little Girl of Long Ago » by Amanda Millie Douglas

"I egged him on," said the veteran organ-builder, and we all know with what results.
Extract from : « The Recent Revolution in Organ Building » by George Laing Miller

But at the next appeal Joe Cross was egged on to make some answer.
Extract from : « The Ocean Cat's Paw » by George Manville Fenn

Carlton never did anything in his life; I egged him on to this.
Extract from : « The 'Mind the Paint' Girl » by Arthur Pinero

Many of the men were beaten and egged, and the manes and tails of their horses were shaved.
Extract from : « Stories Of Ohio » by William Dean Howells

Synonyms for egged

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