Recorded Australian slang terms for 'egg' include 'bum nut', 'butt nugget', and 'fart cartridge'.
Australians use a couple of other colloquial words for a hen's egg. The Australian English word googie or goog is an informal term that dates from the 1880s. It derives from British dialect goggy, a child's word for an egg. A closer parallel to the jocular bum nut, however, is the word cackleberry.
On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to egg, such as: bud, cackle, germ, nucleus, oospore, and ovum.
A “Weichei,” or a soft egg, is essentially a wimp. It's generally used in reference to men. These examples, taken together, seem to suggest that an “egg,” in varying contexts, is used as an insult to signify immaturity and fragility — something that holds true for Twitter's version of this insult.
When you call your next door neighbor a good egg, it's clear that you're fond of her. The expression originally came from its opposite, bad egg, British public school slang from the 1800's for someone who was not nice. Fifty years later, good egg emerged as a casual way to talk about a good chap or a decent fellow.
Such an egg: A New Zealand insult, translatable to “such an idiot”. Similarly, “don't be an egg” is a common New Zealand slang phrase.
gogaidh, a nursery word for an egg, gog, v., to cackle.
The Instagram egg is a photo of an egg posted by the account @world_record_egg on the social media platform Instagram. It became a global phenomenon and an internet meme within days of its creation.
ovum, plural ova, in human physiology, single cell released from either of the female reproductive organs, the ovaries, which is capable of developing into a new organism when fertilized (united) with a sperm cell.
This phrase is a friendly if rather quaint and old-fashioned way of saying that someone is good, kind-hearted, or that you are fond of them. It alludes, literally to a good egg being one that is edible as opposed to a bad egg being rotten inside.
In most species, there are just two types of gamete, and they are radically different. The egg is among the largest cells in an organism, while the sperm (spermatozoon, plural spermatozoa) is often the smallest.
A hobo is probably called that because it's made by throwing a bunch of ingredients into a single pan. As far as I know, it always contains eggs, cheese, and potatoes, and some sort of meat.
Sheila = Girl
Yes, that is the Australian slang for girl.
“Mate” is a popular word for friend. And while it's used in other English-speaking countries around the world, it has a special connection to Australia. In the past, mate has been used to address men, but it can be gender-neutral. In Australia, you'll also hear mate used in an ironic sense.
Chook comes from British dialect chuck(y) 'a chicken; a fowl' which is a variant of chick. Chook is the common term for the live bird, although chook raffles, held in Australian clubs and pubs, have ready-to-cook chooks as prizes.
A developing egg is called an oocyte. Its differentiation into a mature egg (or ovum) involves a series of changes whose timing is geared to the steps of meiosis in which the germ cells go through their two final, highly specialized divisions.
Oocytes are produced in the ovaries during female gametogenesis. The oocyte matures and divides during the follicular phase and then again during ovulation, and becoming a mature ovum or egg.
TikTok Egg Boil is an easy-to-make recipe consisting of jammy or hard-boiled eggs, swimming in a spicy sauce made of garlic, butter, chicken broth and spices. Perfect for a snack or light lunch. Learn more.
With egg on one's face means means appearing ridiculous or foolish because of one's actions. The phrase with egg on one's face is an American idiom, though the origins are murky.
The egg became the most liked picture in 2019 as a result of a hilarious campaign. The post featuring an egg became the most liked post on Instagram due to a viral social media campaign that was launched in early 2019.
egg (v.) "to incite, urge, encourage, instigate," c. 1200, from Old Norse eggja "to goad on, incite," from egg "edge" (see edge (n.)).
The word "Bonnie" means a beautiful and good-humoured person normally referring to ladies i.e "Shes a bonnie lass!".
From Old Norse egg n (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), likely from *h₂éwis (“bird”), possibly from *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”).
Eggs, in general, is a symbol of fertility, birth and a new beginning to many cultures. But to the Chinese, they symbolise much more especially during this festive season. Eggs, being round in shape, means all-round success. It also signifies wholeness and togetherness of the family.
Chook: Chicken. Funnily it can also be an endearment!