dog egg
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "For the first time a musical collector ‘dog’s egg’ created in the opulent Faberge tradition, capturing magnificently the magic of a fouled footpath."
- "Terry was essentially stripped of the armband for boinking Wayne Bridge’s ex, and having a family of roughnecks who were as attractive to tabloid front pages as a nice, fat dog-egg is to a swarm of bluebottles."
- "I had chosen to attend the British comedy awards which, once attended, could not be unattended, like the worm-ridden dog egg in the infant school playground which, once seen, cannot be unseen."
- "The fact is Electronic Arts is slowly but surely swallowing up every game, every developer, every THING. It's spitting out anything that resembles originality and crapping out a conveyor belt of similar looking, similar smelling gaming dog-eggs."
- "You can smile and open your eyes wide and look as though you are showering the recipient with praise, but what you’re actually saying is, “You are a dog egg.”"
- "Even so, developers Scaly Software couldn’t resist the chance to make a quick buck, and so rushed out this utter dog egg of an update in just eight months."
Etymology
Probably popularised by the magazine Viz and its spin-off Roger's Profanisaurus books. Compare the Australian slang barker's egg, attested earlier.
Usage
- British usage
- Humorous
- Slang
- Derogatory