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 Egg. Eggs.Egg-flip, Egg-hot, Egg-nog. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Egg Feast.
 
In Oxford the Saturday preceding Shrove Tuesday is so called; it is also called Egg-Saturday, because pasch eggs are provided for the students on that day.   1
 


 Egg. Eggs.Egg-flip, Egg-hot, Egg-nog. 

 
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