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seg

/sɛɡ/

seg noun: a man; warrior; hero. Also the clipping of segment.

Noun (1)

seg (plural segs)

  1. (archaic) A man; warrior; hero.
  2. (UK, dialectal) A man; fellow.

Noun (2)

seg (plural segs)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete) A castrated farm animal.

Noun (3)

seg (uncountable)

  1. (US, slang) Segregation.
    • […] 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.1988 July 15, Albert Williams, “Prison Drama”, in Chicago Reader

Adjective

seg (not comparable)

  1. Designated for people of color
    • Black members of the order were relegated to seg lodges.

Noun (4)

seg (plural segs)

  1. (UK) A shoe protector (metal stud or plate affixed to the sole or heel of a shoe to prevent excessive wear).
    • Coordinate term: hobnail
    Synonyms:
    blakey
  2. (dialectal) A callus, an area of hardened skin.

Noun (5)

seg

  1. Sedge.
  2. Gladen, or other species of Iris.
    • 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.1805 January, “Observations made in a Tour through parts of Orkney and Shetland in 1894”, in The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, volume 67, number 1, page 26
    • It's also believed that anyone who bites a seg will develop an impediment of speech, such as a stammer.2019, Roy Vickery, Vickery's Folk Flora, page lxxiii

Also used as

seg is also the clipping of segment.

Synonyms of seg

Forms of seg

pluralsegs
alternative form (obsolete)segge

Origin of seg

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”).

Probably from the root of Latin secāre (“to cut”).

Clipping of segregation.

Words formed from seg

Words that rhyme with seg

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Questions about seg

What does seg mean?
Seg means a man; warrior; hero.
What part of speech is seg?
Seg can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce seg?
Seg is pronounced /sɛɡ/.
What is the plural of seg?
The plural of seg is segs.

Words near seg in the dictionary

  1. sefirothic
  2. seftalia
  3. Sefton
  4. Sefton Park
  5. SEFU
  6. seg
  7. sega
  8. Sega Blue Skies
  9. Sega blue sky
  10. Sega-blue sky
  11. Segal

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