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egg cracker

egg cracker

2.8
A small kitchen tool for cracking eggs and separating yolk from white
  • noun
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  • She bought an egg cracker to help make breakfast quicker and less messy.

Examples

  • I need an egg cracker to make this recipe.

  • The egg cracker separates the yolk cleanly from the egg white every time.

  • Most people still prefer to crack eggs by hand rather than use an egg cracker.

  • The egg cracker is broken.

  • To make the recipe easier, she used an egg cracker to quickly break the eggs into the bowl.

  • An egg cracker is a useful tool for chefs who need to separate egg whites from yolks efficiently.

  • He bought a new egg cracker that allows him to crack eggs with one hand, making breakfast preparation quicker.

Surface Forms

egg cracker singular
egg crackers plural

Morphology

egg + cracker

The compound 'egg cracker' is compositionally transparent: 'egg' names the object and 'cracker' denotes an agent/tool that cracks, so the phrase straightforwardly denotes a tool for cracking eggs. This follows ordinary English noun–noun compounding and the productive -er agent/tool pattern, making the meaning inferable for a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Egg cracker comes from the simple idea of a small cracker that 'cracks' an egg shell and keeps the yolk and white apart. That's why the name means 'a tool for breaking and separating eggs'.