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Begging vs Egging - What's the difference?

begging | egging |

As verbs the difference between begging and egging

is that begging is while egging is .

As nouns the difference between begging and egging

is that begging is the act of one who begs while egging is the act of pelting with eggs.

begging

English

(wikipedia begging)

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * go begging * begging the question

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who begs.
  • * 1832 , Charles Coleman, The Mythologie of the Hindus: With Plates
    • The Brahmans were very annoying in their beggings for money

    egging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of pelting with eggs.
  • * 2010 , Daniel R. Biddle, Murray Dubin, Tasting Freedom (page 167)
    • “I stand in relation to him something like that of a child to a parent,” Douglass wrote of the owlish man who had stood with him through mobbings and eggings .