EGG NOG

  

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EGG NOG

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Food & Agriculture

A drink consisting of eggs beaten up with sugar, milk or cream, and often rum, braudy, or other liquor or sometimes a wine usu served cold and flavored with grated nutmeg. Source: European Union. (references)

Slang

Adjective. Source: I believe this is probably a derivative of the term "egg head", which is a slang term for someone who reads a lot and/or knows a lot. Definition: Egg Nog, is a word that is used to describe someone or something that is boring, lame, or stupid. Context: This word can be used in most social situations, as long as it is said around someone who is in their speech community, otherwise the speaker will just recieve funny looks. Social Source: "Clueless" girls. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EGG NOG

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

egg nog

62

egg nog recipe

14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: EGG NOG

Language Translations for "EGG NOG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

advocaat (advocate, barrister, counsel, intercessor, lawyer, solicitor). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

ovobrando. (various references)

   

French

  

lait de poule (eggnog). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eggay ognay

   

Swedish

  

Àggtoddy (egg flip). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: EGG NOG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: eggnog.

Words within the letters "e-g-g-g-n-o"

-2 letters: gone, gong, nogg.

-3 letters: egg, ego, eng, eon, gen, nog, one.

-4 letters: en, go, ne, no, oe, on.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-g-g-n-o"
 

+1 letter: eggnogs.

 

+3 letters: befogging, defogging, engorging, regorging.

 

+4 letters: beclogging, demagoging, doglegging, grogginess, gudgeoning, outbegging.

 

+5 letters: aggregation, bootlegging, demagoguing, geologizing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EGG NOG


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 47 47      4E 4F 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01000111 01000111 00100000 01001110 01001111 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#71 &#71 &#32 &#78 &#79 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0047 0047      004E 004F 0047

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3941412484941

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INDEX

1. Images: Slideshow
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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