meg
/mɛɡ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A diminutive of the female given names Margaret and Megan.
Example Sentences
- "Old Meg was brave as Margaret Queen, And tall as Amazon: An old red blanket cloak she wore, A chip-hat had she on."
- "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.'"
- "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."
- "Other folk get prima-donnaish about having window offices, or having a personal secretary or stuff like that... you only hold out for a few hundred megs of disk space and a pretty hefty communications budget. We all have our price."
- "He could pick out cloth that was thirty meg a yard and get a suit and overcoat for fifteen bucks."
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magnetoencephalo-