What is the name meaning of MEAGER. Phrases containing MEAGER
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MEAGER
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English and Irish (of Norman origin)
English and Irish (of Norman origin) : nickname for a thin person, from Old French maigre ‘thin’, ‘slender’ (Latin macer ‘delicate’).
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English (Somerset)
English (Somerset) : possibly a variant of Meager.
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Irish (midlands)
Irish (midlands) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meachair (see Maher).English and Irish (of Norman origin) : variant spelling of Meager.
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a.
Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative.
n.
That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence.
v. i.
Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.
n.
A meager portion, quantity, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation.
v. t.
Alt. of Meagre
n.
Alt. of Meagreness
a.
Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness.
a.
Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager.
a.
Alt. of Meagre
n.
Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager.
superl.
Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment.
n.
Spare; meager; plain; somber; unostentatious; not abundant or showy.
superl.
Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.
adv.
Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.
superl.
Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
adv.
Alt. of Meagrely
a.
Thin; lean; meager; scrawny; scrannel.
a.
Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.
n.
The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
v. t.
Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.