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eggcup

[ eg-kuhp ]

noun

  1. a small cup or bowl for serving a boiled egg.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of eggcup1

First recorded in 1825–35; egg 1 + cup
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Example Sentences

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Perhaps, though, I expect too much from my eggcups.

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Mutti brings him two soft-boiled eggs in blue eggcups and a thick slice of rye toast.

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On the way back, he spotted the rarest and most delicate object in the wild, an old hummingbird’s nest, fragile and expertly woven, smaller than an eggcup.

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Writing in the Chicago Tribune, columnist Ron Grossman said the library “evokes a soft-boiled egg in a giant eggcup.”

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The drug does its duty: he does not remember finishing the Bavarian cream in its little eggcup, nor the removal of his dinner, nor setting his watch to a new time zone.

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