eggling

/ɛɡ.l̩.ɪŋ/

Etymology

Presumably from *eggle (“to sell eggs”) + -ing. Compare eggler (“seller of eggs”).

noun

  1. The sale of eggs; the trade of an eggler.“No eggler will allow eggs to be contaminated, because he wants to sell at the best price he can get […] If the House says it is, then in my opinion the majority of those people must get out of eggling […]”
  2. A small, miniature, undersized, or underdeveloped egg.“"Ode X" in 1834, Charles L. S. Jones, American Lyrics One Lovling scarcely's fledg'd. One, yet, An eggling still remains; A third, from forth the broken shell, In chirping notes, complains.”