eggette
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]eggette (plural eggettes)
- Synonym of egg waffle (“egg-shaped waffle popular in Hong Kong”)
- 2017, Piera Chen, Emily Matchar, Lonely Planet Pocket Hong Kong:
- This takeaway counter serves up some of Hong Kong's best eggettes, the egg-shaped waffles beloved by local children and adults alike.
- (archaic) An egg-shaped briquet of coal.
- 1913, United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 6358, page 2724:
- […] an eggette or briquette manufacturing contract, where, by the compression of tar with these fine particles of culm, there are made pieces of coal about the size of an egg […]