mégot

Probably from regional mégauder (“to suckle”), from mégaud, from mègue (“whey”), from Vulgar Latin *mesga, from Gaulish (compare Old Irish medc (“whey”), Welsh maidd (“whey”), Cornish meith (“whey”)), from Proto-Celtic *mezgos (“whey”), from Proto-Indo-European *mesgos (“marrow”).

• IPA^(key): /meɡo/

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mégot m (plural mégots)

1. cigarette butt, fag end

• mégoter, mégotter

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