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▪ I. egging, vbl. n.1|ˈɛgɪŋ|
[f. egg v.1 + -ing1.]
An urging forward, incitement, instigation. Also egging forward or egging on.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 197 Þat heued þat Iob helede wið þe deules eginge was his rihte bileue. a1300Cursor M. 7206 His [Samson's] wijf wald noght fin Thoru egging of his wiþerwin. a1400Octouian 688 Selle hem noght For no eggenges. 1521Old City Acc. Bk. Archæol. XLIII, A fyne lost by John Stone for eggyng of an other mannes apprentice from his maistre xxd. 1564Haward Eutropius vii. 63 Antonius began a greate ciuill warre through the..egging forward of his wife Cleopatra. 1598R. Bernard tr. Terence's Hecyra ii. i, They have married by your egging on. a1659Cleveland Wks. (1687) 370 How curst an egging..do these unwily Dances bring. 1875A. R. Hope Schoolboy Fr. 90 He needed very little egging on, to talk nonsense.
▪ II. ˈegging, vbl. n.2
[f. egg v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The action of collecting (wild fowls') eggs; also attrib.
1883G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads ii. 15 The unholy trade of egging and bird-destroying. 1886E. C. Dawson Bp. Hannington viii. (1887) 107 They had arrived in the height of the egging season.
2. The laying or production of eggs, as in egging season, egging time.
1905Westm. Gaz. 4 May 4/1 Among the risks which attend the breeding of game birds, frost at the ‘egging’ time is not the least serious. 1909Ibid. 14 May 5/1 This is the ‘egging’ season, and outlying nests of pheasants and partridges may be disturbed. |