keg
Plural: kegs
Noun
- A small barrel, typically used for holding liquids like beer.
- the quantity contained in a keg
- small cask or barrel
- A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.
Verb
- To store in a keg.
- The pulling down of someone's trousers or kegs, oftentimes as a kind of bullying or prank.
Examples
- He wanted to tap into a KEG of high-scoring tiles, but his rack remained dry.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English kag, from Old Norse kaggi (“keg”), likely a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kagô (“bush, branch, stalk, stump”). Cognate with Icelandic kaggi (“keg; cask”), Norwegian kagg (“keg”), Swedish kagge (“keg”), Low German kag (“vessel; craft”), Dutch kaag (“vessel; craft”). Compare also English cag and chag.
The modern form keg with /ɛ/ is due to a dialectal raising of /a///æ/ to /ɛ/ before velars (cf. fleg); the expected form is preserved in dialectal /kæɡ/, while /keɪɡ/ reflects further raising that occurred in some dialects.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 8
keg: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordkeg: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
keg: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
keg: valid Words With Friends Word