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French
Etymology
Probably from regional mégauder (“to suckle”), from mégaud, from mègue (“whey”), from Vulgar Latin *mesga, from Gaulish (compare Old Irish medc (“whey”), Welsh maidd (“whey”), Cornish meith (“whey”)), from Proto-Celtic *mezgos (“whey”), from Proto-Indo-European *mesgos (“marrow”).
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mégot m (plural mégots)
- cigarette butt, fag end
2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 27:Il connaît, autour de chez lui, les entrées de bureaux, là où les gens sortent en griller une dans la journée et il lui arrive de passer et de ralentir, il ramasse les mégots les plus longs.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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