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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1845, 1914-1929
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EGGALOURIE, Eggaloorie, n. A dish of eggs and milk (Ork. 1866 Edm. Gl., eggalourie). [ɛgɑ′luri]Ork. 1845 Stat. Acc.2 XV. 96:
It was formerly the custom that the women who had attended an accouchement brought a present . . . next day . . . it generally consisted of a stoup full of “eggalourie” and a “cubbie” of bannocks, and was conveyed by stealth into the bed of the invalid.Sh. 1914 J. M. E. Saxby in Old-Lore Misc. VII. ii. 71:
Eggaloorie, is salt, eggs and milk boiled together. This dish was given to the neighbour-wives who waited on a mother to congratulate her on a baby's arrival. It seems to have been the substitute for caudle.
Also used metaph. for “a general smash-up; e.g. of crockery” (Ork. 1929 Marw.).Ork. 1929 Marw.:
That's a bonnie eggalourie.
