Meg vs Keg - What's the difference?

meg | keg |

As nouns the difference between meg and keg

is that meg is common abbreviation for many/any unit having the SI prefix mega-, such as megahertzkeg is a round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.

As a proper noun Meg

is a diminutive of the female given names Margaret and Megan.

As a verb keg is

{{cx|transitive|lang=en}} To store in a keg.

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

keg

English

(wikipedia keg)

Noun

(en noun)

A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.

Synonyms

* barrel

Derived terms

* keg stand

Verb

To store in a keg.

* 2011 , Carla Kelly, Coming Home for Christmas (page 116)

He gestured toward the empty chair and the other officers began passing him their kegged beef and ship's biscuit.

* 2015 , Randy Mosher, Mastering Homebrew (page 228)

Many of us get impatient with the tedium of bottling after a year or two and start thinking about kegging our beers instead.