eggonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Eggon

1. A Benue-Congo language of Nigeria.

発音

動詞

egg on (三人称単数 現在形 eggs on, 現在分詞 egging on, 過去形および過去分詞形 egged on)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To encourage or coax a person to do something, especially something foolhardy or reckless.
   • 1586, William Warner, “The Fourth Booke. Chapter XX.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], published 1602, →OCLC, page 96:

     The Neatreſſe, longing for the reſt, / Did egge him on to tell / How faire ſhe vvas, and vvho ſhe vvas.

   • 1892, Lesslie Hall (translator), chapter 35, in Beowulf:

     Then I heard that at morning one brother the other / With edges of irons egged on to murder,

   • 1908, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 25, in In the South Seas:

     He resented the idea of interference from those who had […] egged him on to a new peril.

   • 1912, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 8, in The Adventures of Sally:

     She had deliberately egged him on to wreck his prospects.

同意語

• provoke

派生語

• egger-on

アナグラム

• gonge