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nest egg en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. A natural or artificial egg placed in a bird's nest, to encourage the bird to lay its own eggs there.
   • My improvement relates to artificial eggs composed of a substance which is offensive to insects, the object being to render the same effective, not only as a nest-egg, but also as a destroyer of vermin. 1879, Patent No. 211,363, issued Jan. 14, 1879 to O. F. Woodward for a Nest-Egg
2. (figuratively) A saving; a reserve of money.
   • This is just like "Easy Rider." Except, now it's our turn. I mean, we can drop out and we can still have our nest egg! 1985, Albert Brooks, Lost in America (motion picture), spoken by David Howard (Albert Brooks):
   • When Mrs. Carey was married she had three hundred pounds, and this money, carefully watched, had been used by her to meet any unforeseen expense, any urgent charity, or to buy Christmas and birthday presents for her husband and for Philip. In the course of years it had diminished sadly, but it was still with the Vicar a subject for jesting. He talked of his wife as a rich woman and he constantly spoke of the "nest egg". 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXIX, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
   • Last year, Elliot Liebman, a 30-year-old musician in Austin, Texas, began investing part of every paycheck in some of those currencies, hoping to build a nest egg. Of his $10,000 investment, about $3,000 remains. 2022 June 29, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Crypto Crash Widens a Divide: ‘Those With Money Will End Up Being Fine’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • Over time, they accumulated a tidy nest egg and retired comfortably.
3. An egg squash.

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Translations (52)

el φώλι (egg placed in a bird's nest) · el αποφώλι (egg placed in a bird's nest) · de Notgroschen (savings) · it uovo per nido (egg placed in a bird's nest) · ru по́дкладень (egg placed in a bird's nest) · fi pesämuna (egg placed in a bird's nest) · ota فول (egg placed in a bird's nest) · ru обма́нное яйцо́ (egg placed in a bird's nest) · gl endego (egg placed in a bird's nest) · nl appeltje voor de dorst (savings) · pl zaskórniak (savings) · gl peto (savings) · es hucha (savings) · fi munitusmuna (egg placed in a bird's nest) · pt pé-de-meia (savings) · pt indez (egg placed in a bird's nest) · pt economias (savings) · gl petiño (savings) · it gruzzolo (savings) · it nidiandolo (egg placed in a bird's nest) · cy wy addod (savings) · fi pesämuna (savings) · pt endez (egg placed in a bird's nest) · es ahorros (savings) · ca coixí (savings) · mi pūtea penapena (savings) · gl niñeiro (egg placed in a bird's nest) · hu dugipénz (savings) · es peculio (savings) · it endice (egg placed in a bird's nest) · pnt φώλ’ (egg placed in a bird's nest) · tr fol (egg placed in a bird's nest) · es colchón (savings) · el φώλος (egg placed in a bird's nest) · hy բունկալ (egg placed in a bird's nest) · de finanzielles Polster (savings) · pt andês (egg placed in a bird's nest) · de Nestei (egg placed in a bird's nest) · bg спестявания (savings) · es guardado (savings) · lzz პიჶოლი (egg placed in a bird's nest) · fr bas de laine (savings) · bg полог (egg placed in a bird's nest) · sv boägg (egg placed in a bird's nest) · es guardadito (savings) · pl zbuk (egg placed in a bird's nest) · ga cillín (savings) · gl éndez (egg placed in a bird's nest) · gl aniñadoiro (egg placed in a bird's nest) · it risparmio (savings) · ru сбережения (savings) · pnt πιφώλι (egg placed in a bird's nest)