Egg On

Definition: Egg On

Egg On

Verb

1. Urge on; cause to act.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Egg On

Motive

Enforce, force; impel; (push); propel; whip, lash, goad, spur, prick, urge; egg on, hound, hurry on; drag; exhort; advise; call upon; press; (request); advocate.

Crosswords: Egg On

There's egg on your face and mud on your shoes (Sowing The Seeds of Love; performing artist: Tears For Fears)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "egg on": have egg on one's face. Additional references.

Albanian

nxit (abet, actuate, arouse, begrime, bring, dare, dispose, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incendiarism, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), nxis (abet, actuate, animate, arouse, begrime, bring, challenge, dare, dispose, drive, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حرض (abet, flesh, foment, incite, instigate, motive, provoke, rouse, set, spark, stir, suborn). (various references)

Bulgarian 

подстрекавам (abet, fanaticize, incite, instigate, key up, needle, provoke, set on, sow, string up, suborn, work up), подучавам (prime, prompt, put smb. up to smth., put up to). (various references)

Czech

ponoukat (abet, put up), pobízet koho. (various references)

Finnish

yllyttää (abet, encourage, impel, incite, instigate, spur on, stimulate, urge). (various references)

French

encourager, inciter. (various references)

German

anstacheln (arouse, drive on, goad, incite, incite to, spur on). (various references)

Greek 

παρακινώ (abet, actuate, exhort, impel, incite, induce, motivate, prod, prompt, spur, stimulate, urge). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"סית (entice, foment, incite, inflame, instigate, persuade, seduce, tempt, whet on), ל�"רבן (goad, prod, spur, stimulate, sting, stir up, urge). (various references)

Hungarian

ösztökél (impel, instigate, stimulate, to edge on, to egg on, to egg sy on to do sg, to egg sy to do sg, to foment, to impel, to jack up, to prod, to spur, to stimulate, urge). (various references)

Indonesian

gili (incite). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

親子丼 (chicken and egg on rice, parent and child donburi). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おや�"ど�"ぶり (chicken and egg on rice, parent and child donburi), おや�"ど�" (chicken and egg on rice, parent and child donburi). (various references)

Manx

greesaghey (abet, accelerate, agitate, drive, excitation, excite, excitement, fire, fire enthusiasm, foment, fomentation, foster, incentive, incite, instigate, instigation, press, prod, provocation, provoke, stir, stir up). (various references)

Pig Latin

eggay onay

Portuguese

provocar (abet, add fuel to, aggravate, arouse, bring, bring on, cause, cause to take place, challenge, court, defy, egg, excite, gall, generate, incite, induce, infuse, instigate, invite, nettle, occasion, pick, provoke, raise, rattle, rouse, solicit, start, stimulate, stir up, waken), instigar (actuate, call up, encourage, impel, incite, instigate, push, put, put on, rouse, set on, spur on, stimulate, tempt, urge), incitar (abet, actuate, arouse, awake, egg, encourage, excite, goad, halloo, impel, incite, instigate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, rouse, set on, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge), fomentar (embrocate, foment, forward, instigate, promote, put forward), amular. (various references)

Russian 

подстрекать (abet, edge on, foment, halloo, incite, instigate, lead on, pick a quarrel, poach, set on). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podbadati (goad, needle). (various references)

Swedish

egga (enkindle, excite, goad, impel, incite, instigate, pique, prod, quicken, set on, stimulate), driva på (draw on, drive, eggon, instigate, keep at, press, prod, prompt, urge on). (various references)

Thai

กระตุ้น (arouse, awake, awaken, energize, fuel, goad, goad into, goad on, lash, make, move, push, quicken, spur). (various references)

Turkish

teşvik etmek (abet, cheer, cheer on, countenance, draw, egg, embolden, encourage, fillip, Foster, ginger, ginger up, give a fillip to, give countenance to, goad, goad on, incite, induce, inspirit, instigate, keep smb. in countenance, lend countenance to, lend wings to, prod, prompt, put a premium on, put smb. on his mettle, revitalize, set on, sharpen, spark, spoonfeed, spur, spur smb. on, stimulate, stir up, tickle up, urge), tahrik etmek (agitate, egg, excite, fan, ferment, hound, hound on, incite, instigate, irritate, jockey into, move, provoke, rough the wrong way, rouse, seduce, solicit, stimulate, sting, stir up, turn on, whet, whip up, wind up, work up), kışkırtmak (agitate, antagonize, defy, egg, excite, fan the flame, ferment, foment, ginger, ginger up, goad, goad on, hound, hound on, incite, inflame, instigate, jockey into, lash, prod, provoke, rouse, set on, solicit, sting, stir up, tempt, warm up, whip up). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gone, gong, nogg.

-2 letters: egg, ego, eng, eon, gen, nog, one.

-3 letters: en, go, ne, no, oe, on.

+1 letter: eggnog, gonged, legong, nogged.

+2 letters: agelong, anagoge, doggone, eggnogs, engorge, gudgeon, legongs, snogged.

+3 letters: anagoges, bogeying, doggoned, doggoner, doggones, engorged, engorges, gasogene, gazogene, geognosy, gingkoes, ginkgoes, glycogen, gonglike, gorgerin, gudgeons, longeing, rogueing, seagoing, vogueing, waggoned, waggoner, wagonage.

+4 letters: anagogies, befogging, belonging, boogeying, boogieing, congeeing, defogging, dogearing, doggonest, easygoing, eloigning, englobing, engorging, fogginess, foregoing, gallonage, gasogenes, gazogenes, genealogy, gheraoing, ghettoing, glowering, glycogens, goffering, goitrogen, gorgerins, gorgonize, governing, groveling, gudgeoned, hogtieing, mongering, reforging, reglowing, regorging, regrowing, sogginess, synagogue, unclogged, waggoners, wagonages.