English

Verb

egg on ‎(third-person singular simple present eggs on, present participle egging on, simple past and past participle egged on)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To encourage or coax a person to do something, especially something foolhardy or reckless.
   • 1892, Lesslie Hall (translator), Beowulf, ch. 35,

     Then I heard that at morning one brother the other / With edges of irons egged on to murder,

   • 1908, Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas, ch. 25,

     He resented the idea of interference from those who had […] egged him on to a new peril.

   • 1912, P. G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally, ch. 8,

     She had deliberately egged him on to wreck his prospects.

Translations

Synonyms

• provoke