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bad egg

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Noun1.bad eggbad egg - (old-fashioned slang) a bad person  
jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
bad person - a person who does harm to others
good egg - (old-fashioned slang) a good person


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Whin a bad egg is shut av the Army, he sings the Divil's Mass for a good riddance; an' that manes swearin' at ivrything from the Commandher-in-Chief down to the Room-Corp'ril, such as you niver in your days heard.
The Big Drunk Draf' by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
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