mégot
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from regional mégauder (“to suckle”), from mégaud, from mègue (“whey”), from Vulgar Latin *mesga, from Gaulish (compare Old Irish medc (“whey”), Welsh maidd (“whey”), Cornish meith (“whey”)), from Proto-Celtic *mezgos (“whey”), from Proto-Indo-European *mesgos (“marrow”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mégot m (plural mégots)
- cigarette butt, fag end
- 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 27:
- Il connaît, autour de chez lui, les entrées de bureaux, là où les gens sortent en griller une dans la journée et il lui arrive de passer et de ralentir, il ramasse les mégots les plus longs.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mégot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Paronyms
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- French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
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- French terms derived from Proto-Celtic
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