seg
/sɛɡ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.42 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
A shoe protector (metal stud or plate affixed to the sole or heel of a shoe to prevent excessive wear).
British usage
noun
Example Sentences
- "[…] when a prisoner is transferred or paroled or sent to "seg" (segregation) or hauled back into court, they don't ask if he's busy with a lead role in a play."
- "Black members of the order were relegated to seg lodges."
- "Coordinate term: hobnail"
- "In one district of Stronsa, I observed several acres covered with the common yellow flag, or seg (iris pseudacorus,) of which a very coarse kind of hay is here made."
- "It's also believed that anyone who bites a seg will develop an impediment of speech, such as a stammer."
- "Boats were made of wood, paper or segs (the leaves of the yellow flag). For some reason, children in Stenness (O) were warned that if they chewed seg leaves they would become dumb."
Etymology
From Middle English segge, from Old English seċġ (“man, warrior, hero”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagi, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz (“follower, retainer, warrior”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow, accompany”). Cognate with Norwegian segg, Icelandic seggur (“bully”).