egging

Pluraleggings

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act of throwing eggs at a person or building, often as a prank or insult.

   Like throwing snowballs at someone, but using eggs instead.

   The egging of the mayor's house made the local news.

   After the match, the visiting team's bus suffered an egging.

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2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of egg. Use this form when the action is happening now.

   They were egging the empty house all weekend.

   The crowd kept egging him on to jump.

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3. 3
   noununcountable

   The act of collecting eggs from the nests of wild birds.

   The park has rules against egging, so no one may take eggs from the nests on the cliffs.

   Gull egging still happens on a few small islands every spring.

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