egg timer

See also: egg-timer and eggtimer

English

A kitchen timer.

Noun

egg timer (plural egg timers)

A small version of an hourglass used to time the boiling of an egg.
(by extension) A timer that can be set to sound an alarm after a certain amount of time; a kitchen timer.
(computing) An hourglass mouse pointer.

Hypernyms

Translations

timer with an alarm

Danish: æggeur
Dutch: eierwekker
Finnish: munakello

French: (with sand) sablier (fr) m, (mechanical) minuteur (fr) m
Romanian: marcator de timp n, timpizor n, ceas de bucătărie n
Swedish: äggklocka (sv) c

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