Crossword-Solution: EGGING 6 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Egging p. pr. & vb. n. of Egg

We have 14 clues for the answer “EGGING”

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Act of vandalism 1 answer
Bombarding with shelled ammunition? 1 answer
Halloween prank 1 answer
Pelting, as a house on Halloween 1 answer
Siege that employs many shells? 1 answer
Urging, with {/on/} 1 answer
Vandal's Halloween activity 1 answer
Vandalizing, as one might do on Halloween 1 answer
___ on (urging) 1 answer
Mischief Night activity 2 answers
Spurring (on) 2 answers
Urging on 3 answers
Prodding 5 answers
urging 59 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EGGING (5)

The software equivalent of {Easter egging}; the making of relatively undirected changes to software in the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
People who ten days before would have sat (at a journey’s end) contentedly in a waiting-room, while their luggage was being sorted by leisurely officials, now hustle nervously about, nagging the custom-house officers and egging on the porters, as though the saving of the next half hour were the prime object of existence.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008
This, too, is a bad house to stay at, and I would just give both of you a bit of advice, my kinsman, not to fire up at the egging on of my wife Hallgerda; for she takes much in hand that is far from my will." "His hands are clean who warns another," says Sigmund.
Njal's Saga Unknown Icelanders 2004
Kept egging me on all the time, and then, when we were stopped, tells the police that it's a physical impossibility for me to do more than fifteen.
The Brother of Daphne Dornford Yates 2008
Seeing to what issue the matter was tending, I set a guard upon myself; and while my lord, out of a parly-voo politess, was egging them on, one after another, to drink deeper and deeper of his old wines, to the manifest detriment of their own senses, I kept myself in a degree as sober as a judge, warily noting all things that came to pass.
The Provost John Galt 2007

Quotes with EGGING (3)

Teammates... were fine things. Piling onto the bus before the game, edgy with shared nerves, egging one another on with the genial, meaningless phrase C'mon, you guys!, collapsing back into the same seats for the ride home — the sense of striving in accord had been a sweet part of high school. Possibly the sweetest. But the camaraderie had not survived graduation, or even the off-seasons. Her teammates, passing in the school corridors in winter or spring, were downshifted to …
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Frequently, people confront us who seemed to be egging the world into calling them on their miserable actions so they can have the pleasure of angry vengeance or an excuse to attract attention. Our compassion cannot be giving them what they think they want, since it is unreasonable to want to be hateful.
Thomm Quackenbush Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared he was. And he told them. Laughing too, hard, loud, and long. Really laughing, and he found himself exhilarated by simply walking the earth. Walking it like he belonged on it; like his legs were stalks, tree trunks, a part of his body that extended down down down into the rock and soil, and were comfortable there--on the earth and on the place where he walked. And he did not limp.
Toni Morrison Song of Solomon
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Appears in: NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 11 times in crossword archives (1980–2022).