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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
eggcup
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ On the upper shelf of the cupboard are four plain white plates, two plain white pudding-bowls, and another eggcup.
▪ This time, our eggcup could contain thousands of millions of tons.
▪ You could pack a ton of White Dwarf material into an eggcup.
Wiktionary
eggcup

alt. (context British English) A small dish used to support a boiled egg whilst being eaten. n. (context British English) A small dish used to support a boiled egg whilst being eaten.

WordNet
eggcup

n. dishware consisting of a small cup for serving a boiled egg [syn: egg cup]

Usage examples of "eggcup".

Now Captain Michales with a blow from his fist, smashed the pottery eggcups and distributed them to his guests to eat.

Bertodulos slowly explained to himself: those who eat eggs without the shells, those who eat eggs with the shells and those who gobble them up with the shells and the eggcups as well.

There are three sorts of men, Bertodulos slowly explained to himself: those who eat eggs without the shells, those who eat eggs with the shells and those who gobble them up with the shells and the eggcups as well.

Diana looked around the kitchen and snatched a set of Wedgewood eggcups from the shelf.

Monsieur Lheureux delicately exhibited three Algerian scarves, several packet of English needles, a pair of straw slippers, and finally, four eggcups in cocoanut wood, carved in open work by convicts.

Some had treads missing from their 168 tracks, limbs had been replaced by rusty prosthetics, bellybuttons by eggcups, eyeballs by lightbulbs.

Some had treads missing from their tracks, limbs had been replaced by rusty prosthetics, bellybuttons by eggcups, eyeballs by lightbulbs.

In this game, someone prepared a tray on which there were a number of small familiar objects - generally about twenty -pencil, toy motor car, eggcup and so on.