See meg in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"topics": [
"ball-games",
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"soccer",
"sports"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "mĕg"
},
{
"ipa": "/mɛɡ/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-meg.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-meg.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-meg.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-meg.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-meg.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛɡ"
}
],
"word": "meg"
}
{
"categories": [
"English clippings",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"Pages with 11 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɛɡ",
"Rhymes:English/ɛɡ/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": "4",
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "megalodon"
},
"expansion": "Clipping of megalodon",
"name": "clipping"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Clipping of megalodon.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "megs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "meg (plural megs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms"
],
"glosses": [
"A megalodon."
],
"links": [
[
"megalodon",
"megalodon"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) A megalodon."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "mĕg"
},
{
"ipa": "/mɛɡ/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-meg.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-meg.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-meg.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-meg.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-meg.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛɡ"
}
],
"word": "meg"
}
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