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deg en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /dɛɡ/

Etymology

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Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable) Abbreviation of degree.
   alt of degree
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, uncountable) Clipping of degradation.
   alt of degradation

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Relateds

grad (degree of angle) · rad (degree of angle)

deg en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /dɛɡ/

Meanings

1. (Northern-England, dialectal) To sprinkle, moisten.
   • Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn. 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 53:

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