Easter egg

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 "Easter egg"; > modern 🇨🇬.

So called because eggs would be eaten during Easter to break the fasting during Lent. (No eggs, dairy, meat except fish, lard, or foods containing these ingredients could be eaten during Lent.)

The computing sense is from the early 1980s, popularized by the video game .

Noun

 * 1) A dyed or decorated egg, traditionally associated with Easter and, in the Western European tradition, sometimes hidden for children to find.
 * 2) A chocolate confection in the shape of an egg, sometimes with chocolates or sweets inside.
 * 3)  An undocumented function hidden in a program or video game, typically triggered by a particular input sequence or combination of keystrokes.
 * 4)  Any image, feature, or other content that is hidden on a video disc or in a movie, trailer, or poster.
 * 1)  An undocumented function hidden in a program or video game, typically triggered by a particular input sequence or combination of keystrokes.
 * 2)  Any image, feature, or other content that is hidden on a video disc or in a movie, trailer, or poster.
 * 1)  Any image, feature, or other content that is hidden on a video disc or in a movie, trailer, or poster.
 * 1)  Any image, feature, or other content that is hidden on a video disc or in a movie, trailer, or poster.

Synonyms

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Translations

 * Afrikaans: paaseier
 * Arabic: بَيْضَة عِيد اَلْفِصْح, بَيْضَة اَلْفِصْح
 * Armenian: զատկի ձու
 * Belarusian: веліко́днае я́йка, фарбаванка
 * Bulgarian: великденско яйце́
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 復活蛋
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, velikonoční vejce
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: paska ovo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: páskaegg
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ovo de Pascua
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: πασχαλινό αβγό
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Oostreeu
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: telur Paskah
 * Irish: ubh Chásca, clúdóg, cúbóg
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: イースター・エッグ
 * Korean: 부활절 달걀
 * Lao: ໄຂ່ອີສເຕີ
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: велигденско јајце
 * Malay: telur Easter
 * Maltese: Bajda ta' l-Għid
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: påskeegg
 * Polish: jajko wielkanocne, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ou de Paști
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ugh na Càisge
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ускршње јаје, писаница
 * Roman: uskršnje jaje,
 * Slovak: kraslica, veľkonočné vajce
 * Slovene: pirh, velikonôčno jájce, písanica, pisanka
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: jatšowne jajo
 * Spanish: huevo de Pascua
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ไข่อีสเตอร์
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: пасха́льне яйце́, велико́днє яйце́, пи́санка
 * Vietnamese: trứng Phục Sinh
 * Welsh: ŵy Pasg


 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 復活蛋
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, chocolade-ei
 * Finnish: suklaamuna,
 * German:, Schokoei
 * Greek: πασχαλινό αβγό
 * Hungarian: csokoládétojás
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sjokoladeegg,
 * Nynorsk: sjokoladeegg, påskeegg
 * Scottish Gaelic: ugh na Càisge
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: ou de pasqua
 * Finnish:
 * German: Easter Egg
 * Hungarian: easter egg
 * Marathi: ईस्टर एग
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: påskeegg
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: ou de pasqua
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: kaŝitaĵo
 * German: Easter Egg
 * Italian: Easter egg
 * Lao: ສິ່ງທີ່ເຊື່ອງໄວ້
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: påskeegg
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: สิ่งที่ซ่อนอยู่