rotten egg

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Noun

rotten egg (plural rotten eggs)

  1. (slang, idiomatic, humorous, childish) A person who is the latest, the last, or the slowest in a group at performing a certain task, especially at going to a certain place.
    Last one there is a rotten egg!
    • 1942, McCall's, volume 69, page 23:
      This barbaric punishment consisted of chasing the victim all over the school yard, everybody screaming “Rotten egg! Rotten egg!” and pretending to throw missiles.
  2. (slang) A closeted transgender person who overcompensates by being actively transphobic.
    • 2020 December 23, communoah, Twitter, archived from the original on 2020-12-23:
      "jkr is a rotten egg" is a decent explanation but it feels just as likely that "I could've been trans" is the TERF equivalent to "I considered prostitution [sic] once but then didn't"
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rotten egg.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rotten, egg.
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