英语词汇egg on的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

egg on. The expression to egg on has nothing to do with hen’s eggs or any kind of eggs. Neither does it derive from Norman invaders pricking Anglo-Saxon prisoners in the buttocks with their ecgs (“the points of their spears”) when urging them to move faster, as one old story claims. To egg on is just a form of the obsolete English verb “to edge”: to incite, provoke, encour- age, urge on, push someone nearer to the edge. To egg someone meant the same as to edge someone and was used that way until about 1566, when the expression was first lengthened and be- came to egg on.

词汇	egg on
词源	egg on. The expression to egg on has nothing to do with hen’s eggs or any kind of eggs. Neither does it derive from Norman invaders pricking Anglo-Saxon prisoners in the buttocks with their ecgs (“the points of their spears”) when urging them to move faster, as one old story claims. To egg on is just a form of the obsolete English verb “to edge”: to incite, provoke, encour- age, urge on, push someone nearer to the edge. To egg someone meant the same as to edge someone and was used that way until about 1566, when the expression was first lengthened and be- came to egg on.
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