"egger-on" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1550 [44 BCE], Cicero, anonymous translator, The booke of freendeship of Marcus Tullie Cicero, folio 58ᵛ:",
          "text": "[…] let there be an honest likyng, and let flattery the egger on of vice be sette a loufe […]",
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          "ref": "1766 January, William Smith, Mirror, manuscript, page 4:",
          "text": "Consult the mirror see it shews / Your Eggers on will turn your foes",
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          "ref": "2006, James M. Lawson, Jr., “Higher Ground: The Nonviolence Imperative”, in Peter Laarman, editor, Getting on Message: Challenging the Christian Right from the Heart of the Gospel, →ISBN, page 27:",
          "text": "I no longer hesitated; the next day I spent the lunch hour fighting the older, bigger, and heavier boy. But the eggers-on were disappointed because I was not beaten, despite the headache I carried away.",
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          "ref": "2008, Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, On the Dot: The Speck That Changed the World, →ISBN, page 163:",
          "text": "Our heartfelt thanks go out to the goodly fellowship of personal sources, expert witnesses, and eggers-on who have supplied us with many of the cheerful facts and enlightening suggestions that have gone into the making of this book […]",
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          "ref": "1550 [44 BCE], Cicero, anonymous translator, The booke of freendeship of Marcus Tullie Cicero, folio 58ᵛ:",
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