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(US prison slang)Segregation.
- 1988 July 15, Albert Williams, “Prison Drama”, inChicago Reader‎^[1]:
  […] when a prisoner is transferred or paroled or sent to "seg" (segregation) or hauled back into court, they don't ask if he's busy with a lead role in a play.

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ad-seg

Adjective

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seg (notcomparable)

Designated for people of color
Black members of the order were relegated toseg lodges.

seg (pluralsegs)

A metalstud orplate fixed to thesole orheel of a shoe to prevent excessive wear.
Synonym:blakey
(dialect) Acallus, an area of hardened skin.

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hobnail

Etymology 5

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Seesedge.

Noun

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seg

Sedge.
Gladen, or other species ofIris.
- 1805 January, “Observations made in a Tour through parts of Orkney and Shetland in 1894”, inThe Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, volume67, number 1, page26:
  In one district of Stronsa, I observed several acres covered with the common yellow flag, orseg (iris pseudacorus,) of which a very coarse kind of hay is here made.
- 2019, Roy Vickery,Vickery's Folk Flora, page lxxiii:
  It's also believed that anyone who bites aseg will develop an impediment of speech, such as a stammer.
- 2020, Ernest Marwick,The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland:
  Boats were made of wood, paper orsegs (the leaves of the yellow flag). For some reason, children in Stenness (O) were warned that if they chewedseg leaves they would become dumb.

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Noun

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seg (pluralsegs)

(broadcasting)Clipping ofsegment.
- 1951 December 15,Billboard, page 6:
  The usual partisanship for bankrollers of radiosegs is shown on TV stations.
- 1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, inGay Community News, volume19, number28, page12:
  In 1992, Mort's doing a political/chat show for the Christian Scientists Monitor Channel, and in January did aseg singing praises for Garrison.

Anagrams

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EGs,ESG,E.S.G.,GSE,SGE,gEs

Afrikaans

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Pronunciation

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Audio: (file)

Verb

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seg (presentseg,present participleseggende,past participlegeseg)

obsolete form ofsê

Faroese

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsesik, fromProto-Germanic*sek, fromProto-Indo-European*swé.

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /seː/
Rhymes:-eː

Pronoun

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seg (accusative reflexive)

oneself,himself,herself,itself,themselves
- setasegniður
  to sit down

Declension

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nominative	—
accusative	seg
dative	sær
genitive	sín

References

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Höskuldur Thráinsson, Hjalmar P. Petersen, Jógvan í Lon Jacobsen, Zakaris Svabo Hansen:Faroese : An Overview and Reference Grammar. Tórshavn: Føroya Fróðskaparfelag, 2004 (p. ., 325 ff.)

Kabyle

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Etymology

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(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /səɡ/

Preposition

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seg

from

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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seg

alternative form ofsegge(“sedge”)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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seg

alternative form ofsegge(“man”)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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Pronoun

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seg -reflexive pronoun

(with verb)oneself;itself;himself/herself
seg sjøl
oneself
Den greiaklarerseg sjøl.
That thing can manageitself.
Han trur påseg sjøl.
He believes inhimself.
Hun trur påseg sjøl.
She believes inherself.
(with verb)one,him,her,it,them
(with verb)themselves
De trur påseg sjøl.
They believe inthemselves.

Derived terms

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Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
feminine	masculine	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	meg	mi	min	mitt	mine
Second	general	du	deg	di	din	ditt	dine
formal (rare)	De	Dem	Deres
Third	feminine (person)	hun	henne	hennes
masculine (person)	han	ham /han	hans
feminine (noun)	den	dens
masculine (noun)
neuter (noun)	det	dets
reflexive	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine
Plural	First	–	vi	oss	vår	vårt	våre
Second	general	dere	deres
formal (very rare)	De	Dem	Deres
Third	general	de	dem	deres
reflexive	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine

Etymology 2

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Alternative forms

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seig

Verb

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seg

simplepast ofsige

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Norsesik, fromProto-Germanic*sek (accusative of*se-). Ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*swe-(“self”).

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /seːɡ/

Pronoun

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seg -reflexive pronoun

(with verb)oneself;itself;himself/herself
(with verb)one,him,her,it,them
(with verb)themselves

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Norwegian Nynorsk personal pronouns
		first person	second person	reflexive	third person
masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	nominative	eg,je¹	du	—	han	ho	det,dat²
accusative	meg	deg	seg	han,honom²	ho,henne²	det,dat²
dative²	meg	deg	seg	honom	henne	di²
genitive	min	din	sin	hans	hennar,hennes¹	dess³
plural	nominative	me,vi	de,dokker	—	dei
accusative	oss,okk	dykk,dokker	seg	dei,deim²
dative	oss,okk	dykk,dokker	seg	deim²
genitive	vår,okkar	dykkar,dokkar	sin	deira,deires¹

Etymology 2

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Verb

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sèg

(non-standard since1938)imperative ofsegja

Etymology 3

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Verb

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seg

imperative ofsega

References

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“seg” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

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Verb

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seg

second-person singular present active imperative ofsegja

Swedish

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Etymology

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Inherited fromOld Swedishsēgher, fromProto-Germanic*sīganą. Originally in the sense "dripping slowly".

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /seːɡ/
Rhymes:-eːɡ

Adjective

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seg (comparativesegare,superlativesegast)

tough,leathery,rubbery
Antonym:mör(“tender”)
enseg biff
atough steak
chewy
seg kola
chewy toffee
slow-witted
Jag är liteseg i skallen idag
I'm a bitslow (in the head) today
slow,boring
Vilkenseg film
What aslow movie
tardy
De skulle varit här för en timme sen. Varför måste de alltid vara såsega?
They were supposed to have been here an hour ago. Why do they always have to be sotardy?
tough (of a person)
enseg gammal gubbe
atough old man

Usage notes

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Having a viscous or tough consistency, permitting a lot of stretching force without breaking. Basically a simultaneous antonym ofrunny andtender. Figuratively slowness, tardiness, toughness, and the like.

Declension

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Inflection ofseg
Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative¹
common singular	seg	segare	segast
neuter singular	segt	segare	segast
plural	sega	segare	segast
masculine plural²	sege	segare	segast

Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular³	sege	segare	segaste
all	sega	segare	segaste

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.