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Egging vs Legging - What's the difference?

egging | legging |

As verbs the difference between egging and legging

is that egging is present participle of lang=en while legging is present participle of leg.

As nouns the difference between egging and legging

is that egging is the act of pelting with eggs while legging is a covering, usually of leather, worn from knee to ankle.

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 .

    legging

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A covering, usually of leather, worn from knee to ankle.
  • Tight fitting leg coverings worn, for example, to gym.
  • One of the legs of a pair of trousers.
  • * Take the legging and turn up the cuff.
  • The process of putting a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
  • * 2000 , Michael Williams, Amy Hoffman, Fundamentals of Options Market (McGraw Hill Professional, page 128)
  • As a practical matter, you cannot put on these positions simultaneously at reasonable prices. In order to achieve these positions at a reasonable risk/reward profile, you must put the positions in a series of separate trades. This process is called legging .

    Derived terms

    * jeggings * meggings * treggings

    Verb

    (head)
  • Derived terms

    * legging it * bootlegging * peg-legging ----