mego

English

Alternative forms

• MEGO

Phrase

mego

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of my eyes glaze over: used to indicate the speaker's boredom or impatience with some subject or activity.
   • 2002, Leonard Sweet, Soulsalsa:

     You can leave a room without leaving the room by kicking in the MEGO syndrome. Once again, I'm bad at this myself. I'm learning to slow the flow and let MEGO.

2. (Internet slang): information that is too technical or difficult for the audience to understand, though they may be too embarrassed to ask questions or admit their confusion.
   • 1993 May 10, Eric Raymond, editor, The Jargon File‎^[1]:

     MEGO is usually directed at senior management by engineers and contains a high proportion of TLAs.

Anagrams

• geom., gome

Javanese

Noun

mego

1. Nonstandard spelling of méga.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.ɡɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡɔ
• Syllabification: me‧go

Pronoun

mego

1. Alternative form of mojego.

Spanish

Etymology

Most likely a contraction of either Latin mītificus (“mild, soft, gentle”), based on mītis (“mild, mellow”), or of mītigatus (“softened”), from mītigō (“to make soft”). Note, however, that similar forms exist in other European languages (compare English meek, Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌺𐍃 (muks) and Old Norse mjúkr (“soft, gentle”), and Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft”).

Alternatively from Latin magicus, and thus doublet to the borrowing mágico; cf. Portuguese meigo, Leonese meigo, and Galician meigo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɡo/ [ˈme.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -eɡo
• Syllabification: me‧go

Adjective

mego (feminine mega, masculine plural megos, feminine plural megas)

1. (archaic) gentle, mild, peaceable

   Synonyms: apacible, manso, tratable

Further reading

• “mego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28