eggcup

[eg-kuhp]

noun

1. a small cup or bowl for serving a boiled egg.

Word History and Origins

Origin of eggcup¹

First recorded in 1825–35; egg ¹ + cup

Example Sentences

But what caught the popular imagination were the giant breakfast eggcups on the roof overlooking the canal.

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Perhaps, though, I expect too much from my eggcups.

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Mutti brings him two soft-boiled eggs in blue eggcups and a thick slice of rye toast.

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On the way back, he spotted the rarest and most delicate object in the wild, an old hummingbird’s nest, fragile and expertly woven, smaller than an eggcup.

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Writing in the Chicago Tribune, columnist Ron Grossman said the library “evokes a soft-boiled egg in a giant eggcup.”

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