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Deg vs Meg - What's the difference?

deg | meg |

As nouns the difference between deg and meg

is that deg is short for degree while meg is common abbreviation for many/any unit having the SI prefix mega-, such as megahertz

As a verb deg

is to sprinkle, moisten.

As a proper noun Meg is

a diminutive of the female given names Margaret and Megan.

deg

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Short for degree

    • See also

    * grad * rad

    Verb

    (degg)
  • (Northern England, dialect) To sprinkle, moisten.
  • *1881 , Gerard Manley Hopkins, ''
  • *:Degged with dew, dappled with dew
  • *:Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through

    • Anagrams

    * * ----

    meg

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • 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 , World's Fair , Fawcett Crest 1986, ISBN 0449212378, 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.'

    Anagrams

    * * English diminutives of female given names