"dog egg" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably popularised by the magazine Viz and its spin-off Roger's Profanisaurus books. Compare the Australian slang barker's egg, attested earlier.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dog eggs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "dog egg (plural dog eggs)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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            "Architecture",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Art",
            "Sciences",
            "Culture",
            "Society"
          ],
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997 October–November, “The Legendary Faberge Musical Dog’s Egg”, in Viz, number 86, page 2:",
          "text": "For the first time a musical collector ‘dog’s egg’ created in the opulent Faberge tradition, capturing magnificently the magic of a fouled footpath.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 March 15, Dan Jones, “Time to forgive and end all this moral hypocrisy”, in Evening Standard, page 59:",
          "text": "Terry was essentially stripped of the armband for boinking Wayne Bridge’s ex, and having a family of roughnecks who were as attractive to tabloid front pages as a nice, fat dog-egg is to a swarm of bluebottles.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 December 21, Stewart Lee, “I’ve had it with comedy awards – and so has my bounty hunter alter ego”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:",
          "text": "I had chosen to attend the British comedy awards which, once attended, could not be unattended, like the worm-ridden dog egg in the infant school playground which, once seen, cannot be unseen.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lump of dog faeces."
      ],
      "id": "en-dog_egg-en-noun-iA0QEsBf",
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        [
          "lump",
          "lump"
        ],
        [
          "faeces",
          "feces"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "dog-egg"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "dog's egg"
        }
      ],
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        "British",
        "humorous",
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005 April 5, “Review: TimeSplitters: Future Perfect”, in Nintendo Official Magazine, number 152, page 66:",
          "text": "The fact is Electronic Arts is slowly but surely swallowing up every game, every developer, every THING. It's spitting out anything that resembles originality and crapping out a conveyor belt of similar looking, similar smelling gaming dog-eggs.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 March 9, Jeremy Clarkson, “Dear Uncle Tim, thank you for this opportunity to mock you for just 62p”, in The Sunday Times, page 10:",
          "text": "You can smile and open your eyes wide and look as though you are showering the recipient with praise, but what you’re actually saying is, “You are a dog egg.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Nate Crowley, 100 Best Video Games (That Never Existed), Oxford: Rebellion, page 108:",
          "text": "Even so, developers Scaly Software couldn’t resist the chance to make a quick buck, and so rushed out this utter dog egg of an update in just eight months.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A worthless or contemptible thing or person."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "worthless",
          "worthless"
        ],
        [
          "contemptible",
          "contemptible"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory) A worthless or contemptible thing or person."
      ],
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        "British",
        "derogatory",
        "humorous",
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Roger's Profanisaurus"
  ],
  "word": "dog egg"
}

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    "English humorous terms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English slang",
    "English vulgarities",
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    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Feces"
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  "etymology_text": "Probably popularised by the magazine Viz and its spin-off Roger's Profanisaurus books. Compare the Australian slang barker's egg, attested earlier.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dog eggs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "dog egg (plural dog eggs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997 October–November, “The Legendary Faberge Musical Dog’s Egg”, in Viz, number 86, page 2:",
          "text": "For the first time a musical collector ‘dog’s egg’ created in the opulent Faberge tradition, capturing magnificently the magic of a fouled footpath.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 March 15, Dan Jones, “Time to forgive and end all this moral hypocrisy”, in Evening Standard, page 59:",
          "text": "Terry was essentially stripped of the armband for boinking Wayne Bridge’s ex, and having a family of roughnecks who were as attractive to tabloid front pages as a nice, fat dog-egg is to a swarm of bluebottles.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 December 21, Stewart Lee, “I’ve had it with comedy awards – and so has my bounty hunter alter ego”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:",
          "text": "I had chosen to attend the British comedy awards which, once attended, could not be unattended, like the worm-ridden dog egg in the infant school playground which, once seen, cannot be unseen.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lump of dog faeces."
      ],
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        [
          "lump",
          "lump"
        ],
        [
          "faeces",
          "feces"
        ]
      ],
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        "British",
        "humorous",
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    },
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        "English derogatory terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005 April 5, “Review: TimeSplitters: Future Perfect”, in Nintendo Official Magazine, number 152, page 66:",
          "text": "The fact is Electronic Arts is slowly but surely swallowing up every game, every developer, every THING. It's spitting out anything that resembles originality and crapping out a conveyor belt of similar looking, similar smelling gaming dog-eggs.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 March 9, Jeremy Clarkson, “Dear Uncle Tim, thank you for this opportunity to mock you for just 62p”, in The Sunday Times, page 10:",
          "text": "You can smile and open your eyes wide and look as though you are showering the recipient with praise, but what you’re actually saying is, “You are a dog egg.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Nate Crowley, 100 Best Video Games (That Never Existed), Oxford: Rebellion, page 108:",
          "text": "Even so, developers Scaly Software couldn’t resist the chance to make a quick buck, and so rushed out this utter dog egg of an update in just eight months.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A worthless or contemptible thing or person."
      ],
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          "worthless",
          "worthless"
        ],
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          "contemptible",
          "contemptible"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory) A worthless or contemptible thing or person."
      ],
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        "British",
        "derogatory",
        "humorous",
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "dog-egg"
    },
    {
      "word": "dog's egg"
    }
  ],
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    "Roger's Profanisaurus"
  ],
  "word": "dog egg"
}