egger

[ eg-er ]

noun

tent caterpillar.

Origin of egger

1695–1705; egg¹ + -er¹; the cocoon is egg-shaped

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How to use egger in a sentence

Dave Eggers wrote What Is The What after conducting hundreds of hours of interviews with his protagonist.
The Birth of the Novel | Nick Romeo | November 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
My autobiography is What Is the What, which I wrote with the help of my American friend Dave Eggers.
The South Sudan Clashes Are No Tribal War | Valentino Deng | December 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Dave Eggers takes on the dystopian world of Facebook and Google in his new novel The Circle.
Is Dave Eggers’ ‘The Circle’ Our Generation’s ‘1984’? | Stefan Beck | October 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Speaking of fun, Eggers has plenty of it dumping on the internal culture of the Northern California tech corridor.
Is Dave Eggers’ ‘The Circle’ Our Generation’s ‘1984’? | Stefan Beck | October 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Spike Jonze, the director, had come, too; his co-screenwriter, Dave Eggers, was on the line from San Francisco.
Maurice Sendak Knew Enough to Put the Bite Back in Children’s Stories | Andrew Romano | May 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

Tears ran down his cheeks, and he told me that his barrel of rum had been stolen by the "eggers" or some fishermen.
Audubon and his Journals, Vol. 2 | Maria R. Audubon
The eggers, now numbering a dozen, all armed with guns and bludgeons, bid defiance to the fishermen.
Audubon and his Journals, Vol. 2 | Maria R. Audubon
One of the eggers, still under the influence of drink, pulls his trigger, and an unfortunate sailor is seen to reel in agony.
Audubon and his Journals, Vol. 2 | Maria R. Audubon
The Gulls too suffer when the eggers come, for their eggs are gathered up with the Murres for the markets.
The Bird Book | Chester A. Reed
I asked some of the eggers how many murres nested on the South Farallon, and they thought at least one hundred thousand.
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands | Charles Nordhoff

British Dictionary definitions for egger

egger

eggar

/ (ˈɛɡə) /

noun

any of various widely distributed moths of the family Lasiocampidae, such as Lasiocampa quercus (oak egger) of Europe, having brown bodies and wings

Origin of egger

C18: from egg 1, from the egg-shaped cocoon

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