one's egg money

one's (butter and) egg money

Fig. money that a farm woman earns. (Farm women would often sell butter and eggs for extra money that would be stashed away for an emergency.) Jane was saving her butter and egg money for a new TV. I've got my egg money. Let's go shopping.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Andria	-	Georgian, Corsican
Odarka	-	Ukrainian
Sofia	zo-FEE-ah (German), so-FEE-ah (Italian), soo-FEE-ə (Portuguese), SO-fee-ah (Finnish)	Norwegian, Swedish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Greek, Finnish, Estonian, Slovak, Romanian
Hamnet	-	English (Archaic)
Staas	STAH:S	Dutch
Mila	-	Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian