Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Designated for people of color
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
A man; warrior; hero.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
A man; fellow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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noun
A castrated farm animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete
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noun
Segregation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang, uncountable
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noun
A shoe protector (metal stud or plate affixed to the sole or heel of a shoe to prevent excessive wear).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Synonyms: blakey
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A callus, an area of hardened skin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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noun
Sedge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Gladen, or other species of Iris.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Clipping of segment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Topics: broadcasting, media
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History
Clipping of segregation.
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”).
Probably from the root of Latin secāre (“to cut”).
Genericized trademark of Blakey's Segs, a British brand of shoe protector. Formed as an apocopic form of (steel) segment.
See sedge.
