different between maigre vs maugre

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French maigre. Doublet of meager.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?me?.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?me?.??/

Adjective

maigre (not comparable)

1. (cooking) Made without meat (and thus permitted to be eaten on a fast day).
2. Belonging to a fast day or fast.

Noun

maigre (plural maigres)

1. A kind of fish; the meagre.

Anagrams

• Margie, gamier, imager, mirage

French

Etymology

From Old French megre, meigre, from Latin macrum, accusative of macer, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mh??rós. The variant dialectal form maire is the normal phonetic result; the main form with -gr- was perhaps influenced by analogy with aigre, or may be semi-learned.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m???/

Adjective

maigre (plural maigres)

1. meagre, skinny
2. lean, thin

Derived terms

• maigre comme un clou
• manger maigre
• vaches maigres

Related terms

• amaigrir
• maigrement
• maigreur
• maigrir

Noun

maigre m (plural maigres)

1. meagre (fish)

Further reading

• “maigre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• émigra
• gémira
• germai
• mirage

Norman

Etymology

From Old French megre, meigre, from Latin macer, macrum.

Pronunciation

Adjective

maigre m or f

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) thin

Derived terms

• maigrir (“to lose weight”)

English

Alternative forms

• magre [14th–19th c.]
• malgre
• mauger [14th–18th c.]
• maulgre [14th–17th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English maugre, from Anglo-Norman malgré, from mal (“bad”) + gre (“pleasure, grace”) (from Old French, from Latin gratum).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??.???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?.??/

Preposition

maugre

1. (obsolete) Notwithstanding; in spite of. [from 14th c.]

Synonyms

• despite, regardless of; see also Thesaurus:despite

Translations

Adverb

maugre (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Notwithstanding, despite everything. [14th-17th c.]

Synonyms

• even so, nonetheless, withal; see also Thesaurus:nevertheless

Noun

maugre (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Ill will; spite.

Anagrams

• Gaumer, Mauger, mauger, murage