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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /kɛɡ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (dated, Southeastern Midwest of the U.S.) IPA(key): /kæɡ/[1]
- (dated, New England, Virginia, South Carolina) IPA(key): /keɪɡ/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɛɡ
Noun
[edit]keg (plural kegs)
- A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.
- 1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Rip Van Winkle”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 72:
- He bore on his shoulder a stout keg, that seemed full of liquor, and made signs for Rip to approach and assist him with his load.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
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Verb
[edit]keg (third-person singular simple present kegs, present participle kegging, simple past and past participle kegged)
- (transitive) To store in a keg.
- 2011, Carla Kelly, Coming Home for Christmas, page 116:
- He gestured toward the empty chair and the other officers began passing him their kegged beef and ship's biscuit.
- 2015, Randy Mosher, Mastering Homebrew, page 228:
- Many of us get impatient with the tedium of bottling after a year or two and start thinking about kegging our beers instead.
- (UK) The pulling down of someone's trousers or kegs. Oftentimes as a kind of bullying or prank.
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