eggcellent job
- noun
- /ˈɛɡsɛlənt dʒɑb/
- Informal
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gran trabajo
- You did an eggcellent job on your presentation!
Examples
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The chef received compliments for doing an eggcellent job on the breakfast menu.
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Wow, that was an eggcellent job!
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She did an eggcellent job with her presentation today.
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Your report was an eggcellent job—I loved the attention to detail!
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She did an eggcellent job with her presentation today.
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The chef received compliments for doing an eggcellent job on the breakfast menu.
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Your report was an eggcellent job—I loved the attention to detail!
How Praiseworthy
Surface Forms
Morphology
eggcellent + job
This is a humorous pun replacing 'excellent' with 'eggcellent' to mean 'excellent job', so a learner who recognises the wordplay and who knows 'egg' (and the intended base word 'excellent') can infer the intended praise. However, the form is nonstandard and relies on playful phonological/orthographic substitution rather than a regular compositional pattern, so the meaning is not fully predictable for an average B1 learner without exposure.
Etymology
Eggcellent job is a playful pun that mixes egg and excellent to make a funny compliment. The silly image of an egg helps people remember the praise, so it means 'excellent job'.