egg timer

egg timer

See also: egg-timer and eggtimer

English

A kitchen timer.

Noun

egg timer (plural egg timers)

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

Hypernyms

• hourglass
• kitchen timer

Translations

timer with an alarm

Danish: æggeur Dutch: eierwekker Finnish: munakello (fi)

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