Skeg vs Smeg - What's the difference?

As a noun skeg

is (nautical) a fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller.

(slang).

(wikipedia skeg)

(en noun)

(nautical) A fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller.

(nautical) A similar construction on a boat that acts as a keel.

A fin that serves to stabilize a surfboard.

(obsolete) A sort of wild plum.

(Holland)

(obsolete) A kind of oat.

* 1842 , Cuthbert William Johnson, The farmer's encyclopædia, and dictionary of rural affairs

SKEGS . A kind of oat, sometimes cultivated as a crop in Nottinghamshire. It is the Avena stipiformis of Linnaeus.

(Australia, slang) A surfer; a person who leads a surfing lifestyle.

(en interjection)

(slang)

* smegger * smegging * smeghead