[f. the sb.] trans. a. In comb. To egg and crumb: to cover with yolk of egg and crumbs. b. To pelt with (rotten) eggs. c. intr. To collect (wild fowls’) eggs.
1833. Marryat, P. Simple, i. ‘They be all hegged and crumbed.’
1857. The Sun (Baltimore, MD), 1 Aug., 1/7. (Bartlett). The abolition editor of the Newport (Ky.) News, was egged out of Alexandria … on Monday.
1864. Mrs. H. Wood, Trevlyn Hold, III. ix. 131. To see a sweetbread egged and crumbed.
1883. Harper’s Weekly, 18 Aug., 519/4. An Iowa poet has been egged by the populace.
1887. E. C. Dawson, Bp. Hannington, viii. 106. They … fished, egged … and explored to their heart’s content.
