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Dag
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- 1 Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. US, informal
"Dag, yo."
- 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 skewer.
- 3 One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd. Australia, derogatory, slang
"2004 July 25, Debbie Kruger, Melbourne Weekly Magazine, All the World's a Stage, Now, wide-eyed and unfashionably excited ("I’m such a dag!" she remarks several times), she has the leading role of Viola in the Bell Shakespeare Company’s production of Twelfth Night, opening on August 10 at the Victorian Arts Centre Playhouse."
- 4 A misty shower; dew.
- 5 A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
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- 6 Pronunciation spelling of dog. Ireland, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
"Mickey: Dags! D' ya like dags?"
- 7 Ellipsis of Dagwood sandwich. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 8 Initialism of deputy attorney general. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 9 a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing wordnet
- 10 A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
"To see the dunged folds of dag-tayled sheepe."
- 11 A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
- 12 An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so. Australia, New-Zealand, obsolete, slang
- 13 Ellipsis of dag sandwich. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 14 Acronym of directed acyclic graph. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
- 15 10 grams wordnet
- 16 A dagger; a poniard. obsolete
"Even when my dag was levelled at his heart"
- 17 Initialism of defense acquisition guide. US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 18 A kind of large pistol. obsolete
"The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some."
- 19 Initialism of diacylglycerol. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 20 The unbranched antler of a young deer.
- 1 To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
"Blade shearers could shear, crutch, mules or dag sheep anywhere they were needed."
- 2 To skewer food, for roasting over a fire transitive
- 3 To be misty; to drizzle. UK, dialectal
- 4 To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags transitive
- 5 To sully; to make dirty; to bemire. dialectal, obsolete
"Vexing the baths with his dagg'd rout."
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 "hanging end" sense.
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 "hanging end" sense.
From Old French dague (from Old Occitan dague, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *daca (“Dacian knife”), from the Roman province Dacia (roughly modern Romania); the ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix, as in poignard (“dagger”)); cognate with dagger.
From Old French dague (from Old Occitan dague, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *daca (“Dacian knife”), from the Roman province Dacia (roughly modern Romania); the ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix, as in poignard (“dagger”)); cognate with dagger.
N-less (or nonnasal) variant of dang, a euphemism for damn.
Perhaps a back-formation from daggy, or, a specialised sense of British dialect dag, a daring feat amongst boys.
Of North Germanic origin; compare Swedish dagg. Doublet of dew.
Of North Germanic origin; compare Swedish dagg. Doublet of dew.
Abbreviations * Initialism of directed acyclic graph. * Clipping of dagwood.
Clipping of Dagwood.
See also for "dag"
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