egging

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of egg

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of pelting with eggs.

   ““I stand in relation to him something like that of a child to a parent,” Douglass wrote of the owlish man who had stood with him through mobbings and eggings.”

2. (countable, uncountable)The act of gathering the eggs of wild birds.

   “Plover egging was once a popular tradition.”