"rotten egg" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-rotten egg.ogg [Australia] Forms: rotten eggs [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛɡ Head templates: {{en-noun}} rotten egg (plural rotten eggs)
  1. (slang, idiomatic, humorous, childish) A person who is the latest, the last, or the slowest in a group to arrive somewhere or to perform a certain task. Tags: childish, humorous, idiomatic, slang
    Sense id: en-rotten_egg-en-noun-CWCjvLja
  2. (slang) A closeted transgender person who overcompensates by being actively transphobic. Tags: slang Categories (topical): People, Transgender, Transphobia
    Sense id: en-rotten_egg-en-noun-45d9jETi Disambiguation of People: 37 63 0 Disambiguation of Transgender: 11 85 4 Disambiguation of Transphobia: 12 84 4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 65 6
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rotten, egg.
    Sense id: en-rotten_egg-en-noun-LY7xFLqH

Inflected forms

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