pego
English edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain.
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Noun edit
pego (plural pegos)
- (archaic, slang) The penis.
- 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 758:
- Lately, he has come to dread Sugarʼs overtures of love, for his pego has remained flaccid when he would most wish to have use of it.
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pego
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
pego (accusative singular pegon, plural pegoj, accusative plural pegojn)
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Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
Perhaps from a non-Celtic substrate language related to Lusitanian, from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“to paint, mark, embroider”).
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Adjective edit
pego (feminine pega, masculine plural pegos, feminine plural pegas)
- variegated
- Synonyms: apigarado, multicolor, pégaro, pinto
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References edit
- “pego” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “pego” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “pego” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Etymology 2 edit
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pego
Ido edit
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pego (plural pegi)
Portuguese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɡu
- Hyphenation: pe‧go
Noun edit
pego m (plural pegos)
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese peego, from Latin pelagus (“sea”), from Ancient Greek πέλαγος (pélagos). Doublet of pélago.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɛɡu
- Hyphenation: pe‧go
Noun edit
pego m (plural pegos)
- the bottom of the sea
- the deepest point of a body of water
- an underwater cave
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɛɡu
- Hyphenation: pe‧go
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pego
Etymology 4 edit
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Participle edit
pego (short participle, feminine pega, masculine plural pegos, feminine plural pegas)
- (Brazil) past participle of pegar
Serbo-Croatian edit
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pego (Cyrillic spelling пего)
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Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
pego m (plural pegos)
- (card games) a trick consisting of taking two cards from the pack instead of one
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pego
Further reading edit
- “pego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014