Meg
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: mĕg, IPA(key): /mɛɡ/
- Rhymes: -ɛɡ
Proper noun
Meg
- A diminutive of the female given names Margaret and Megan.
- 1818 John Keats: Meg Merrilies:
- Old Meg was brave as Margaret Queen,
- And tall as Amazon:
- An old red blanket cloak she wore,
- A chip-hat had she on.
- 1985 E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair, Fawcett Crest 1986, →ISBN, page 208:
- My mother thought Meg a sweet child, that's what she called her, a sweet child, although she was critical of her name.
- 'What kind of name is that,' she said.
- 'It's short for Margaret,' I said. 'But everyone calls her Meg.'
- 'Well, that's no name for a girl, that's a scullery maid's name. I fault the mother.'
- 1818 John Keats: Meg Merrilies:
Noun
Meg (plural Megs)
- (colloquial) Megalodon.
- 2002, Mark Renz, Megalodon: Hunting the Hunter, p. 33:
- The Bone Valley Region of Florida has multiple Miocene nursery sites in which neonate and young Meg teeth are abundant, as well as food sources. Young Megs probably consumed a lot of large fish but because fish vertebrae don't hold up well in the fossil record, it's difficult to get an accurate reading.
- 2002, Mark Renz, Megalodon: Hunting the Hunter, p. 33:
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