Egg vs Queen - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between egg and queen

is that egg is an approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development while queen is a female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria

As verbs the difference between egg and queen

is that egg is to throw eggs at while queen is to make a queen.

As a proper noun Queen is

a title given to queens.

egg

English

(wikipedia egg)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) egge, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.

(countable) The egg of a domestic fowl as an item of food.

(uncountable) The contents of one or more (hen's usually) eggs as a culinary ingredient, etc.

(biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw

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Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.

A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.

(mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur), (potentially offensive) A person of Caucasian (Western) ancestry, who has a strong desire to learn about and immerse him- or herself in East Asian culture, and/or such a person who is perceived as behaving as if he or she were Asian (from the "white" outside and "yellow" inside).

(NZ, pejorative) A foolish or obnoxious person.

In terms such as good egg'', ''bad egg'', ''tough egg etc., a person, fellow.

Verb

(en verb)

To throw eggs at.

To dip in or coat with beaten egg (cooking).

To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.

After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.

Derived terms

* * * * * * * * * * * egg-nog, eggnog * egg-shell, eggshell * * * * * * * * * * * * * scrambled egg, scrambled eggs *

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To encourage, incite.

Derived terms

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queen

English

(wikipedia queen)

Noun

(en noun)

A female monarch. Example: (Queen Victoria)

The wife or widow of a king.

(chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

(card games) A playing card with the picture of a queen on its face, the twelfth card in a given suit.

A powerful or forceful female person.

(derogatory, slang) An effeminate male homosexual. See drag queen.

A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.

An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.

Synonyms

* (female monarch) queen regnant * (wife of a king) queen consort

Derived terms

* drag queen * drama queen * ice queen * May Queen / queen of the May * prom queen * queencraft * queenhood * Queenie * queenlike * queenly * Queen of Sheba * Queen's English * queenship * requeen

Verb

To make a queen.

(obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.

(Shakespeare)

(chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.

(BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.

* 2000 , "Lorelei", The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance

Try Queening him. Have him lie on his back while you sit on his face (make sure he has an airway through either his mouth or his nose).

* 2007 , Madelynne Ellis, Dark Designs

...not Eloise, sat queening him. He couldn't wait to tip her velvet. He wanted to come, but not here, with these three. It was time to extract himself.

* 2012 , Yolanda Celbridge, The Castle of Maldona

She saw his pink tongue flickering on Clare's exposed nympha as she queened him, her love juices shining on his chin and throat