deg

• IPA^(key): /dɛɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Abbreviations

deg (countable and uncountable, plural degs)

1. (mathematics, countable) Abbreviation of degree.
2. (motorsports, uncountable) Clipping of degradation.

deg (third-person singular simple present degs, present participle degging, simple past and past participle degged)

1. (Northern England, dialectal) To sprinkle, moisten.
   • 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:

     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.

• EDG, EGD, GED, Ged, egd, ged

From Proto-Brythonic *deg, from Proto-Celtic *dekam, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

deg

1. ten

deg

1. 3rd person singular present indicative form of degt
2. 3rd person plural present indicative form of degt
3. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of degt
4. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of degt

From Persian دیگ‎ (dig, “cooking pot”).

• IPA^(key): [deɡ], [dek]

deg

1. large cooking pot

• degti

• IPA^(key): /dæj/
• Homophone: deig
• Rhymes: -æj

deg

1. (personal) thee, you; object form of du
2. (also deg selv) yourself

From Old Norse þik.

• IPA^(key): /deːɡ/

deg

1. objective case of du

• “deg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /dej/

deġ m (Mercian, Kentish)

1. Alternative form of dæġ

deg f

1. ear

From Old Swedish degher, from Old Norse deig, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, to mold, to form”).

Compare Norwegian Bokmål deig, Norwegian Nynorsk deig, Icelandic deig, Faroese deiggj, Danish dej.

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• IPA^(key): /deːɡ/

deg c

1. dough; a thick mix of flour and water
2. (uncountable, slang) dough (money)

• smet

• deg in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• deg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• deg in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• IPA^(key): /deɡ/

deg

1. ten

• bals (obsolete, Original Volapük)

• degid

• IPA^(key): /deːɡ/
• Rhymes: -eːɡ

From Middle Welsh deg, from Proto-Brythonic *deg, from Proto-Celtic *dekam, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

• deng

deg

1. (cardinal number) ten

deg m (plural degau)

1. ten

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “deg”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

deg

1. Soft mutation of teg.