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Seg

//sɛɡ// adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Designated for people of color not-comparable

    "Black members of the order were relegated to seg lodges."

Noun
  1. 1
    A man; warrior; hero. archaic
  2. 2
    A castrated farm animal. Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete
  3. 3
    Segregation. US, slang, uncountable

    "[…] when a prisoner is transferred or paroled or sent to "seg" (segregation) or hauled back into court, they don't ask if he's busy with a lead role in a play."

  4. 4
    A metal stud or plate fixed to the sole or heel of a shoe to prevent excessive wear.
  5. 5
    Sedge.
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  1. 6
    Clipping of segment. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping

    "The usual partisanship for bankrollers of radio segs is shown on TV stations."

  2. 7
    A man; fellow. UK, dialectal
  3. 8
    A callus, an area of hardened skin. dialectal
  4. 9
    Gladen, or other species of Iris.

    "In one district of Stronsa, I observed several acres covered with the common yellow flag, or seg (iris pseudacorus,) of which a very coarse kind of hay is here made."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English segge, from Old English seċġ (“man, warrior, hero”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagi, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz (“follower, retainer, warrior”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow, accompany”). Cognate with Norwegian segg, Icelandic seggur (“bully”).

Etymology 2

Probably from the root of Latin secāre (“to cut”).

Etymology 3

Clipping of segregation.

Etymology 4

Clipping of segregation.

Etymology 5

See sedge.

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