(color) Of a pale yellowish-whitish colour, like that of the eggshell. / Exhibiting the thinness, translucency or near-transparency, and fragility of an eggshell.

(color) A delicate pale blue colour. / Robin's-egg blue.

Of a delicate pale blue colour.

(Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The plant Solanum melongena. / (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The edible fruit of the Solanum melongena: an aubergine.

simple past tense and past participle of egg

(Britain) A small dish used to support a boiled egg while it is eaten.

(derogatory) A bald person, especially a man. / A bald head. / (derogatory) A coldly out of personal touch intellectual.

(derogatory) A worthless or undesirable person. / (wrestling slang) A preliminary wrestler; a jobber. / An ordinary person; a simpleton. / (boxing) A failed boxer; a tomato can.

(linguistics) a word or phrase that sounds like and is mistakenly used in a seemingly logical or plausible way for another word or phrase either on its own or as part of a set expression

plural of eggcorn