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单词 addle egg
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addle egg
addle egg n. an egg that is addled. [See discussion in etymology section.]
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the world > animals > birds > egg > [noun] > type of
addle eggc1275
goose-eggc1394
wind-egg1398
pigeon's egg1651
the world > food and drink > food > eggs > [noun] > bad egg
addle eggc1275
rotten egg1536
c1275Adel eye [see sense B. 1].
a1333 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (BL Add.) (1929) 72 Des oefes le donez germéez Non pas que sunt esterguléz, adely [prob. read adel ey].
a1475 in F. J. Furnivall Jyl of Breyntford's Test. (1871) 32 (MED) He is lyke..A sory laueroke satt on brode Opon two adyll eggis.
1567 A. Nowell Confut. Dormans Disproufe f. 428v Hatched vs out such a sorte of goodlie decrees, woorse than addle egges.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. ii. 128 Pan. Hee esteemes her no more then I esteeme an addle egge: Cres. If you loue an addle egge as well as you loue an idle head you would eate chickens ith shell. View more context for this quotation
1667 Third Advice in Second & Third Advice to Painter 18 Alas, even they (though shell'd in trebble Oak) Will prove an Addle-egg with double Yoalk.
1766 Willoughby in T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 62 Upon which lay one young one, and an addle egg.
1840 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) V. 191 Why must the 130 millions which are involved in railways be an addle egg?
1992 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 3: Far East (BBC) 9 Dec. FE/1559/A2/ 1 They threw addle eggs at the building of the ‘American Cultural Centre’ and scattered handbills demanding the pullout of the US forces.
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addle egg
a. The (more or less) spheroidal body produced by the female of birds and other animal species, and containing the germ of a new individual, enclosed within a shell or firm membrane. addle egg, wind egg: see those words.
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the world > animals > birds > egg > [noun]
egga1000
bird's egg1565
the world > food and drink > food > eggs > [noun]
egga1000
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > egg
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a1000 Boeth. Metr. xx. 169 On æge bið gioleca on middan.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 156 Wiþ þon þe hær ne weaxe æmettan ægru genim.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 36 Kimeð þe kaue..& reaueð hire hire eairen [a1250 Nero eiren].
c1300 K. Alis. 568 A faukon..An ay he laide..That feol the kyng Phelip nygh.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 343 Many other briddes Hudden..her egges..In mareys.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. lix. 5 The eiren of edderes thei to-breeken.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xxviii. 106 Anoþere birde..laborithe..to infecte hir nest or hir eyren.
c1450 Two Cookery-bks. (1888) 82 And then make faire bater of rawe yolkes of eron.
1486 Bk. St. Albans A ij a To speke of hawkis fro an eeg to thei be habull to be takene.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxix. 13 The Estrich..when he hath layed his egges vpon the grounde, he bredeth them in the dust.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 32 Thinke him as a Serpents egge . View more context for this quotation
1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 48 Improperly that is an egg out of the whole whereof a living creature is bred, as the eggs of Spiders, Ants, Flies.
1747 W. Gould Acct. Eng. Ants 32 A Queen..in a Box..will in a few Days deposit some Eggs, unless she had laid before you took her.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 339 The numerous brood of [turtles'] eggs are..buried in the warm sands of the shore.
1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. 95 The eggs of the Slug, when dried up by the sun or by artificial heat..are found not to have lost their fertility.
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