rotten egg
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Childish, Humorous, Idiomatic, Slang A person who is the latest, the last, or the slowest in a group to arrive somewhere or to perform a certain task.
- Last one there is a rotten egg!
- This barbaric punishment consisted of chasing the victim all over the school yard, everybody screaming “Rotten egg! Rotten egg!” and pretending to throw missiles.1942, McCall's, volume 69, page 23:
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An egg (“closeted transgender person”) who overcompensates by being actively transphobic.
Chiefly transgender slang
- Or because they themselves experience gender dysphoria but have gone down the rotten egg path.2021 August 14, Violent_Violette, “Is gender dysphoria an exclusively trans experience?”, in Reddit, asktransgender, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rotten, egg.