Green’s Dictionary of Slang

egg v.2

[SE egg on]

to make fun of someone; to make a fool of oneself.

[US]J.T. Farrell Gas-House McGinty 63: Don’t let ’em egg you, John.
[US]S. Yurick Warriors (1966) 89: The bitch smiled [...] ‘Some man you are.’ ‘All right,’ the little leader said. ‘Stop egging me.’.
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Apr. 4: egg – act silly, stupid, make a fool of oneself.
[UK]S. Armitage ‘Eclipse’ in CloudCuckooLand 117: He was egging himself, I know that.