rotten egg
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who is the latest, the last, or the slowest in a group to arrive somewhere or to perform a certain task.
Humorous; Slang
noun
An egg (“closeted transgender person”) who overcompensates by being actively transphobic.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rotten, egg.
Example Sentences
- "Last one there is a rotten egg!"
- "This barbaric punishment consisted of chasing the victim all over the school yard, everybody screaming “Rotten egg! Rotten egg!” and pretending to throw missiles."
- "Or because they themselves experience gender dysphoria but have gone down the rotten egg path."