egg

egg is a 3-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.
2. noun. A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.
3. noun. Anything resembling an egg in form.
4. transitive verb. To urge on; to instigate; to incite/
5. noun. animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
6. noun. one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

   "she kicked him in the balls and got away"

   Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, nut, orchis, testicle, testis

7. noun. oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food

   Synonyms: eggs

8. verb. coat with beaten egg

   "egg a schnitzel"

9. verb. throw eggs at

Synonyms

ball, ballock, bollock, nut, orchis, testicle, testis, eggs

Common word forms

eggs, egged, egger, egging, eggless

Words from these letters

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