feg
noun
feg is a noun meaning “A piece, a clove (of segmented produce, especially oranges and garlic)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-G, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of feg is fegs.
What does feg mean?
noun
- 1
A piece, a clove (of segmented produce, especially oranges and garlic).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of feg
- fegs plural
- fig
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is feg?
Feg appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does feg come from?
From fig, with the change in spelling reflecting a Caribbean pronunciation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).