egg on your face

To be extremely embarrassed. Usually the embarassment is the result of one's own actions. Not sure of the origin, but it may come from when clowns are at a circus and they have eggs thrown at them because of their goofy acts or when actors had eggs thrown at them performing in plays a couple of centuries ago.

"I am sure you still have egg on your face after causing a scene in the mall and later finding out that your boyfriend was in the mall with his neice from Chicago instead of another girl".

egg on your face by VaNellie September 28, 2005

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Egg on your face

Meaning - To be embarrassed.
Origin - Yellow egg shows up vividly well on your face if you don't wipe your mouth after eating, and, unless you're really thick-skinned, that's embarrassing.

Stan had egg on his face after saying he could easily do fifty push-ups, and then giving up after doing just twenty.

Make sure you have your story straight - go public without the facts and you will have egg on your face.

Egg on your face by koravar July 20, 2010

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egg on your face

Egg on your face is a clear synonym for having ejaculate on one's face.

Betty - "just make sure to get away before you get some egg on your face"

Janet - "I would hate to get egg on my face"

egg on your face by pinballer101 February 7, 2010

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to have egg on your face

You “have egg on your face” when you say something stupid,or you do something that makes you look stupid.
Also to suffer embarrassment as a result of a public failure.

To have egg on your face: I was so nervous to speak with the boy i like that i said a lot of silly things...Tomorrow i’ll see him again at school, and i have egg on my face..!

to have egg on your face by *Nero Cristallo* January 24, 2018

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Fleg

The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.

"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"

Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013

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Skeef

To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.

"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."

Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026

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Hair spider

A tight, tangled knot of loose hair and lint that forms inside clothing during the clothes dryer cycle. It typically hides inside garments, causing an annoying lump or a phantom tickling sensation against the skin until it is found or falls out onto the floor during folding.

I was folding my clothes and a huge hair spider fell out onto my hand

Hair spider by Kmorsels July 15, 2026

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