Meanings
nounmegass (usually uncountable, plural megasss)
plural megasss
- archaicuncountableusuallyBagasse.
The megass was then gathered together, and suffered to steep in water so hot, that the hand can be borne in it without inconvenience, and after a while the megass was reground : the canes yielded two pans of liquor, and the megass one; […]
1846, Simmonds Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany (Peter Lund Simmonds, William Henry Giles Kingston), page 119
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Origin
Attested since about 1840 in American English, a modification of bagasse.
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APA
megass. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megass
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “megass,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megass.
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