mégot
French
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): /me.ɡo/
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Noun
mégot m (plural mégots)
- cigarette butt, fag end
Derived terms
- mégoter, mégotter
Further reading
- “mégot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Paronyms
- magot
- négo