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third-person singular simple present eggs on, present participle egging on, simple past and past participle egged on
(transitive, idiomatic) To encourage or coax a person to do something, especially something foolhardy or reckless. quotations examples
The Neatreſſe, longing for the reſt, / Did egge him on to tell / How faire ſhe vvas, and vvho ſhe vvas.
1586, William Warner, “The Fourth Booke. Chapter XX.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: , published 1602, page 96
Then I heard that at morning one brother the other / With edges of irons egged on to murder,
1892, chapter 35, in Lesslie Hall, transl., Beowulf
He resented the idea of interference from those who had […] egged him on to a new peril.
1908, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 25, in In the South Seas
She had deliberately egged him on to wreck his prospects.
1912, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 8, in The Adventures of Sally