egging

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egging

/ˈɛɡɪŋ/

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of egg

noun eggings

countable, uncountable The act of pelting with eggs. “I stand in relation to him something like that of a child to a parent,” Douglass wrote of the owlish man who had stood with him through mobbings and eggings.
countable, uncountable The act of gathering the eggs of wild birds. Plover egging was once a popular tradition.

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@misc{egging_2026,
  title = {egging},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/egging},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}