egg cup
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- noun
- /ɛɡ kʌp/
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- But when he was five, certain small objects from the kitchen disappeared: teaspoons, egg cups, a potato peeler.
- egg cups and spoons
- a large egg cup
- 1 egg cup
I mean I I like eggs you know as much as the next person, but as far as egg cup holders go, this one is freaking awesome.
- I mean I I like eggs you know as much as the next person, but as far as egg cup holders go, this one is freaking awesome.
Examples
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Between courses, a fake silver egg-cup of watery ice cream is served that coats the palate it is supposed to clear for more eating; a ritual someone in the cartel has picked up in eagerness to claim elegance as well as history, patriotism, etc.
Fiction book (1994) -
One resourceful enough to make a tarnished jigger serve for an egg cup, a lens-cleaner for a cozy?
Fiction book (1999) -
Then I got another egg cup and then I also got Bro I, I came with the goods, came with the goods.
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Any lateral movement on your part and you could be served in an egg cup.
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Later on in the season, as the nest becomes more of a chick nursery than an egg cup, running repairs are possible, too.
Academic text (1994) -
And now we've got egg cups with some foil.
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She was spooning a boiled egg from an egg cup with sprigs of flowers all over it.
Fiction book (1991) -
He carefully placed the boiled egg in the egg cup before serving it at breakfast.
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For a classy breakfast, serve the soft-boiled eggs in elegant egg cups with toast soldiers.
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After cooking, she transferred the egg into an egg cup to keep it upright while eating.
Synonyms
A small cup that holds a boiled egg upright while you eat it
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Morphology
This is a simple noun–noun compound where the meaning is directly built from 'egg' (the object) + 'cup' (a small container); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a small cup for holding an egg. The referent is concrete and the compositional naming pattern is common cross-linguistically, yielding clear transparency.
Etymology
The noun egg cup comes from the simple picture of a cup that holds an egg upright while you eat it. So an egg cup today means a small dish used to 'hold' and serve a boiled egg.