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degged

degged is the simple past and past participle of deg.

Meaning of deg

Verb

deg (third-person singular simple present degs, present participle degging, simple past and past participle degged)

  1. (Northern England, dialectal) To sprinkle, moisten.
    • Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 53

Questions about degged

What is degged the simple past and past participle of?
Degged is the simple past and past participle of deg.

Words near degged in the dictionary

  1. degerminators
  2. degerming
  3. degerms
  4. Degersheim
  5. Degeyter
  6. degged
  7. Deggial
  8. degging
  9. deghan
  10. Deghand
  11. deghans

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