eggcup

Examples

• All

• He enjoyed his breakfast with a soft-boiled egg served in a decorative eggcup.

• The street, one of those numbered ones, was as still as a stage set, but stepping out firmly in my cowboy boots, I headed what I figured was west—you get a sense of direction growing up in the morning shadow of the Blue Ridge—and, sure enough, I soon caught a peek of the Capitol dome in the distance, white as an egg in an eggcup.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Ask the patient to describe the amount of mucus, for example, as a teaspoonful or half an eggcup.

  Academic text (2011)

• She wants our space for her new hobby, painting ceramic eggcups and garish ashtrays.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Boyd drank a glass of orange juice, ate an English muffin with raspberry jam, and a soft-boiled egg from a china eggcup designed to look like a chick with an eggshell on its head.

  Fiction book (1998)

• For Easter brunch, we used brightly colored eggcups to serve our boiled eggs.

Synonyms

C

cup

vseggcup

846 1.0

A small open container with a handle for drinking liquids

is specialised to hold a boiled egg upright while it is eaten

E

egg cup

vseggcup

1 1.0

A small dish that holds a boiled egg upright in its shell

is the identical item written as one word

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology