Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English plural of
egg .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural See
ey , an egg.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Plural form of
ey .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And then at last another said, that he would have "eyren"; then the goodwife said that she understood him well.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
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And there is a comoun hows in that cytee, that is alle fulle of smale furneys; and thidre bryngen wommen of the toun here eyren 73 of hennes, of gees and of dokes, for to ben put in to tho furneyses.
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And there is a common house in that city that is all full of small furnaces, and thither bring women of the town their eyren of hens, of geese, and or ducks for to be put into those furnaces.
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And there is a comoun hows in that cytee, that is alle fulle of smale furneys; and thidre bryngen wommen of the toun here eyren 519 of hennes, of gees and of dokes, for to ben put in to tho furneyses.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And then at last another said he would have eyren, then the good wife said she understood him well.
History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 John Richard Green 1860
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N. Foreland in Kent asked for eggs, and the good wyf answerede, that she coude speak no Frenshe -- another sayd, that he wolde have _eyren_, then the good wyf sayd that she understood hym wel. '
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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Nym eyren wyth al the wyte and myse bred and schepys [2] talwe as gret as dyses [3] grynd peper and safroun and cast therto and do hit in the schepis wombe seth it wel and dresse it forthe of brode leches thynne.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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Lo, what should a man in these days now write, eggs or eyren?
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
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Those edible things that come out of chickens were "egges" in the northern part of England and "eyren" in the southern.
NYT > Home Page By KATHERINE SCHULTEN 2010
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And there is a comoun hows in that cytee, that is alle fulle of smale furneys; and thidre bryngen wommen of the toun here eyren [Footnote: Eggs.] of hennes, of gees and of dokes, for to ben put in to tho furneyses.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
fbharjo commented on the word eyren
scrambled 'eggs' to modern English speakers
June 26, 2010