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eggwoman en · NOUN

Etymology

From egg + -woman.

Meanings

1. A woman who delivers eggs.
   • One Sunday morning, when the family were all sitting at breakfast discussing buttered “baps,” fresh eggs, — as fresh as ever were laid, old Peggy, the eggwoman, had informed them,—and café au lait, all solemnly and silently engaged in the business,— Letty broke silence thus, — 1864, Coast Castle: Its Environs, Its Inhabitants and Its Visitors, page 44:
   • The butcher, the baker, the greengrocer, the old eggwoman, the vegetable dealer from the country, the fishman, every one who in any way purveyed to my little household, came to lay presents on the sunny engawa. 1907 April, Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, “At Home—Colonel and Mrs. Vladimir von Theill”, in As The Hague Ordains: Journal of a Russian Prisoner’s Wife in Japan, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 303:
   • So! Even the provincials knew his humiliation. The eggwoman, next, would be offering him sympathy! 1960, V. T. Calnan, The Blood of Gennaro, page 81:

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