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UK
/ˈɛɡkʌp/
]
[ US /ˈɛɡˌkəp/ ]
[ US /ˈɛɡˌkəp/ ]
NOUN
- dishware consisting of a small cup for serving a boiled egg
How To Use eggcup In A Sentence
- As they are so small that an eggcup holds 500 of them, they are almost impossible to clean up. Times, Sunday Times
- Put an upturned eggcup in the middle of the dish to prop up the pastry. Times, Sunday Times
- The typical daily food ration was, according to one civilian, ‘five slices bread, half a small cutlet, half a tumbler of milk, two thimblefuls of fat, a few potatoes and an eggcup of sugar’.
- She's regretted that choice ever since, to the point that when we see other things she's waffling on I ask her, "Is it an eggcup? Day in the Life of an Idiot
- Somehow, it thrived, accepting mashed worm from the end of a toothpick, and eventually, birdseed from an eggcup, which it managed on its own. BLACKBIRD
- As they are so small that an eggcup holds 500 of them, they are almost impossible to clean up. Times, Sunday Times
- Somehow, it thrived, accepting mashed worm from the end of a toothpick, and eventually, birdseed from an eggcup, which it managed on its own. BLACKBIRD
- Dissolve the saffron in an eggcup full of boiling water. Times, Sunday Times
- The second from the left, with its small pear-shaped bowl, is typical for an egg spoon, which is confirmed in this instance by its inclusion in a boxed set of eggcups and spoons.
- There's a storm in an eggcup today over Alistair Darling spending only half the week in London and the rest in Scotland while he takes his turn as Gordon Brown's stand-in during the Prime Minister's "holiday". Archive 2009-08-01