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dag

Pronunciation: /dæɡ/

The English word “dag” has 17 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
  2. A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
  3. A skewer.
  4. A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
  5. A dagger; a poniard.
  6. A kind of large pistol.
  7. The unbranched antler of a young deer.
  8. One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
  9. An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so.
  10. A misty shower; dew.
  11. A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.

verb

  1. To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
  2. To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
  3. To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.
  4. To skewer food, for roasting over a fire.
  5. To be misty; to drizzle.

interjection

  1. Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.

Etymology

From Middle English dagge, of uncertain (probably Germanic) origin, cognate with (Middle) Dutch dag, dagge, dagh. The sense "dangling lock of wool, matted with dung" (originally from the dialect of Kent) is also termed "daglock" (derived from the "hanging end" sense of "dag") or "daggle-lock" and some sources consider the sense a shortening of that longer word rather than a mere evolution of the…

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