megre

• megyre, megere, meger, megire, megir

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman megre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛːɡər/, /ˈmɛːɡrə/

megre

1. Lean, haggard; suffering the physical effects of hunger.
2. (rare) Skinny, narrow, slim; showing thinness.
3. (rare) Shriveled; dried-up.

• English: meager, meagre (Commonwealth)
  • Jamaican Creole: mawga
• Scots: meagre, meager (possibly borrowed from Modern English)

• “mēgre, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 October 2018.

From Latin macer.

megre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular megre)

1. alternative form of meigre
2. (Insular French) skinny, very slim

• → Middle English: megre, megyre, megere, meger, megire, megir
  • English: meager, meagre (Commonwealth)
    • Jamaican Creole: mawga
  • Scots: meagre, meager (possibly borrowed from Modern English)