Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fresh country eggs

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.30 in modern English

Syllables: fresh -coun-try eg-gs
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A common way to describe ordinary chicken eggs on a breakfast menu, especially in expensive restaurants and hotels.

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fresh, country, eggs.

Example Sentences

"It is difficult to see how a user of eggs could afford to pay such prices when fresh country eggs are being sold by farmers to country grocers at this moment for prices ranging above and below 20 cents a dozen in trade."
"Every Saturday a farmer came to our door selling fresh country eggs from his big round basket covered with straw."
"He started shipping about half a case of fresh country eggs to my parents every week or two."

Inflected Forms

fresh country egg (singular)

Questions

What does fresh country eggs mean?: A common way to describe ordinary chicken eggs on a breakfast menu, especially in expensive restaurants and hotels.

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