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(dialectal) Alternative form of egg (“encourage”) [To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).]
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A capon produced by chemical castration (typically by the use of diethylstilbestrol)
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Alternative spelling of chicken feed [Food (usually grain) given to poultry.]
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(dated) Someone (often a man) who raises chickens to produce meat.
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Pronunciation spelling of chitterlings. [Small intestine, boiled and fried, usually of a pig. Sometimes prepared with hog maws.]
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(archaic) A yolkless egg.
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(fishing, cooking) A type of dried or cured herring caught at Digby, Nova Scotia.
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The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.
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A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.
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a repository for eggs (female gametes), both in the context of ecology (i.e. storing the eggs of an endangered species) and in the context of human reproductive technology.
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(countable) An egg carton; A specialized container for eggs which has multiple indentations for holding individual eggs.
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(by ellipsis) An Easter egg hunt.
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The yellow central part of a chicken’s (or other bird’s) egg.
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(of a hen) Unable to pass an egg that has formed.
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(informal, humorous) Exciting, when referring to eggs.
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One who eggs or incites.
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A place where eggs are deposited or kept.
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(archaic) An egg-shaped briquet of coal.
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(Internet slang) An Eggdrop bot: a kind of automated IRC user with various functionality.
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(archaic) One who gathers, or deals in, eggs.
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A man who delivers eggs.
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A jelly-like mass of eggs, laid by various creatures.
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(informal) Owning an eggnant animal.
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Alternative form of egg pod [An egg case, especially that of a locust]
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(informal, humorous) Exactly, when referring to eggs or Easter.
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A string of eggs produced by amphibians such as the midwife toad.
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Fish, or their skins, from which oil or glue has been extracted.
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(colloquial) Ellipsis of foie gras. [The fattened liver of geese or ducks, used for gourmet cooking.]
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(Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) A guinea.
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(usually in the plural) the edible viscera of a bird
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A unit of measure of egg protein quality, based on the egg's weight and the height of the albumen immediately around the yolk.
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A reticulum (second stomach of a ruminant)
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(informal) A person who eats or is a fan of KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken).
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Like mutton; having a flavour of mutton.
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(rare, slang) A chicken nugget.
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(humorous, only in puns or referring to French cooking) An egg.
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A hollow ceramic device shaped like an upstretched bird with open beak, used for supporting or venting a pie.
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Alternative form of play Old Gooseberry [(archaic, idiomatic, UK) To suddenly put a stop to a disturbance by force or threats.]
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Eggcorn of quote unquote.
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(cooking) The tripe made from the second compartment of the stomach of a cow (or other ruminant).
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Veal from calves reared in a relatively humane way (without veal crates) and having a darker pink colour.
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(Cockney rhyming slang) A wig.
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(Australia, humorous) A rabbit, or rabbit meat.
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An egg that is somehow lacking (e.g. lacking the yolk or the shell).
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(mythology) A mythological motif, found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations, of an egg from which the universe or some primordial being is "hatched".
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(cant, slang) a person who breaks open safes, a burglar; a yegg.
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