egged

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of egg.

   The crowd egged her on as she hauled herself up the last stretch of rope.

   The cutlets were floured, egged, and rolled in breadcrumbs just before frying.

   Note

   A regular past form whose verb does unusually varied work. Vandals egged a car, a cook egged cutlets before breadcrumbing them, a tube got egged into an oval, and a crowd egged a climber on. As a simple past it stands alone; as a participle it follows have or be (the car had been egged). The object usually tells you which kind of egging is meant.

2. 2
   adjective

   Containing eggs, or carrying eggs within the body.

   Biologists counted the egged females before releasing them back into the stream.

   The egged dough rose higher and baked to a deeper color than the plain batch.

   Similargravid

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