egging
noun/ˈɛɡɪŋ/
1
The act of pelting with eggs.
- “I stand in relation to him something like that of a child to a parent,” Douglass wrote of the owlish man who had stood with him through mobbings and eggings.2010, Daniel R. Biddle, Murray Dubin, Tasting Freedom, page 167:
2
The act of gathering the eggs of wild birds.
- Plover egging was once a popular tradition.
- Derived terms
- turtle-egging