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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Meg

fem. proper name; before the late 20c. rise in popularity of Megan it typically was a pet form of Margaret, and was "used dial. to indicate a hoyden, coarse woman, etc." [OED]

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meg

n. (context slang English) Common abbreviation for many/any unit having the SI prefix '''mega-''', such as '''megahertz'''

WordNet
meg

n. the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros [syn: million, 1000000, one thousand thousand]

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Meg

Meg is a feminine given name, often a short form of Margaret, Megan, Megumi (Japanese), etc. It may refer to:

People:

  • Meggin Meg Cabot (born 1967), American author of romantic and paranormal fiction
  • Margaret Meg Burton Cahill (born 1954), American politician and former Arizona state senator
  • Margaret Meg Foster (born 1948), American actress
  • Mary Ellen Meg Greenfield (1930-1999), American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer and columnist
  • Meg Frampton (born 1985), guitarist and back-up singer for the band Meg & Dia
  • Meg Kelly, American television soap opera screenwriter
  • Meghann Meg Lanning (born 1992), Australian cricketer
  • Meg Lee Chin, Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the group Pigface
  • Meg LeFauve, American screenwriter (co-nominated for the Academy Award for Inside Out) and producer
  • Meg Lees (born 1948), Australian politician
  • Meg Mallon (born 1963), American LPGA golfer
  • Meagan Meg Morris (born 1992), American National Women's Soccer League player
  • Margaret Meg Ryan (born 1961), American actress
  • Meg Tilly, Canadian-American actress born Margaret Elizabeth Chan in 1960
  • Megan Meg White (born 1974), American drummer, half of the rock duo The White Stripes (with former husband Jack White)
  • Margaret Meg Whitman (born 1956), former CEO of eBay and California gubernatorial candidate
  • Meg Wolitzer (born 1959), American author
  • Margaret Meg Wyllie (1917–2002), American actress

Fictional characters:

  • Megatron Meg Griffin, one of the main characters on the animated television show Family Guy
  • Margaret 'Meg' March, in Louisa May Alcott's novels Little Women, Little Men and Jo's Boys
  • Meg Masters, on the television show Supernatural
  • Margaret Meg Murry, in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet novels
  • Margaret Meg Snyder, on the American soap opera As the World Turns
  • the title character of Meg!, a comic strip
  • Meg, short for Megara (Disney) in Disney's 1997 film Hercules
  • Meg, a ditsy barmaid and the doppelgänger of Xena: Warrior Princess

Category:Feminine given names

Meg (disambiguation)

Meg is a feminine given name. It may also refer to:

In print:

  • Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, a 1997 science fiction novel by Steve Alten
  • Meg: Primal Waters, a 2004 science fiction novel by Steve Alten
  • Meg: Hell's Aquarium, a 2009 science fiction novel by Steve Alten
  • Meg!, a comic strip

Stage name:

  • Meg (singer), a Japanese singer
  • Meg (Maria Di Donna), an Italian singer and former member of band 99 Posse and duo Nous

Other uses:

  • Meg (informal), short for megabyte, a computer term, or a units of information
Meg (singer)

Meg (born October 3, 1980, whose name is officially stylised as MEG) is a Japanese recording artist, model and fashion designer from Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. She is signed with Starchild Records, a division of King Records.

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Usage examples of "meg".

Meg smelled of shampoo and cheap cosmetics and childhood, and Addle was overwhelmed by the shape and feel of a girl roughly the same age asChloe.

Salem Falls 313 It hit Addle then, what Meg had been doing at the cemetery.

Meg went about from house to house, begging deadclothes, and got the body straighted in a wonderful decent manner, with a plate of earth and salt placed upon it--an admonitory type of mortality and eternal life that has ill-advisedly gone out of fashion.

As Cat and Meg Garcia reached the spot, Bluey staggered out of the alley into the street, holding both hands against his chest.

Up until now he had had the help of, first, Bluey, then Meg, then Hedger, Gomez, and Bergman, but now he was on his own.

It seems that poor Jenny, having heard of the luminations that were lighted up through the country on the ending of the Popish Bill, had, with Meg, travelled by themselves into Glasgow, where they had gathered or begged a stock of candles, and coming back under the cloud of night, had surprised and alarmed the whole clachan, by lighting up their window in the manner that I have described.

Which meant that Meg spent a good deal of time playing cribbage and two-handed patience with her while still contriving to do her usual household chores.

Doctor Murdoch came into the tavern, but so confused and excited was I by my amours with Meg Storey, that I no longer thought to find him there, but spent the rest of the night riding hither and thither in search of him, until Danseuse would gallop no more and we walked wearily home.

Meg would sigh with wonder at such unimaginable things and threaten to drift to sleep, lulled by my voice, while outside I would hear poor Danseuse paw the frosty ground and whinny with cold.

Feeling almost weepy with dazedness and happiness, Meg followed with Laura and Jeremy.

Meg fed the animals and then got into her old duffle coat and took the dog for a gentle walk.

Harvath and Meg took their places in the middle of the column, and after a final weapons and equipment check, the team set off for their positions overlooking the Hijrah Oasis.

Once, even, he braved destruction by creeping furtively into the entrance of a hoam consecrated to a god with a harsh-sounding foreign name, Mcmxl, but from there Meg begged him to withdraw, lest He somehow divine their presence.

Before Meg could protest, Lowrie set off hobbling across the road, his cigar bobbing like a drunken firefly.

It was not Vancourt, however, but Caroline, Lady Kenilworth, come to call in a cloud of French perfume and, Meg naughtily noted, a cloud of false French hair, neatly adjusted to hide her own thinning locks.