Ancient egg
noun
See hundred-year egg
Historical Examples
If you can procure an ancient egg you have the tidbit for any varmint that may hit your track.
Steel Traps A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding
A more dazed Irishman than he never threw an ancient egg or a defunct cat at an alleged Celtic comedian with green whiskers.
Cappy Ricks Retires Peter B. Kyne
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