英语词汇“picking eggs”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

transitive. In a children's game (usually played during Easter): to attempt to break (an opponent's egg) with one's own. Frequently in picking eggs. Also (occasionally) intransitive.

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1861 Ladies' Repository Apr. 209 Cracking or picking eggs at Easter was also an oriental sport, originating in Mesopotamia, where the dyeing or coloring of eggs first commenced.

1915 Washington Post 6 Apr. 16/2 ‘Got an egg? Want to pick?’

1942 Baltimore Sun 26 Mar. 10/1 Kids always used to test all their own eggs to see which was the firmest and hardest and would then choose that to pick with.

1993 R. Alvarez in Hometown Boy (1999) vii. 115 Picking eggs was a big thing around the neighborhoods..You won a hard-boiled egg from another kid—that was something good to eat.

单词	picking eggs
释义	> as lemmas picking eggs transitive. In a children's game (usually played during Easter): to attempt to break (an opponent's egg) with one's own. Frequently in picking eggs. Also (occasionally) intransitive. ΚΠ 1861 Ladies' Repository Apr. 209 Cracking or picking eggs at Easter was also an oriental sport, originating in Mesopotamia, where the dyeing or coloring of eggs first commenced. 1915 Washington Post 6 Apr. 16/2 ‘Got an egg? Want to pick?’ 1942 Baltimore Sun 26 Mar. 10/1 Kids always used to test all their own eggs to see which was the firmest and hardest and would then choose that to pick with. 1993 R. Alvarez in Hometown Boy (1999) vii. 115 Picking eggs was a big thing around the neighborhoods..You won a hard-boiled egg from another kid—that was something good to eat. extracted from pickv.³ < as lemmas
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