eggcup

[ eg-kuhp ]

noun

1. a small cup or bowl for serving a boiled egg.

Word History and Origins

Origin of eggcup¹

First recorded in 1825–35; egg ¹ + cup

Example Sentences

Perhaps, though, I expect too much from my eggcups.

From The Guardian

Mutti brings him two soft-boiled eggs in blue eggcups and a thick slice of rye toast.

From Literature

On the way back, he spotted the rarest and most delicate object in the wild, an old hummingbird’s nest, fragile and expertly woven, smaller than an eggcup.

From Literature

Writing in the Chicago Tribune, columnist Ron Grossman said the library “evokes a soft-boiled egg in a giant eggcup.”

From Washington Times

The drug does its duty: he does not remember finishing the Bavarian cream in its little eggcup, nor the removal of his dinner, nor setting his watch to a new time zone.

From The New Yorker