dag.
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.
Meaning & usage
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.
A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
Where this word comes from
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.
To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.
Where this word comes from
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.
A skewer.
A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
A dagger; a poniard.
A kind of large pistol.
The unbranched antler of a young deer.
Where this word comes from
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.
To skewer food, for roasting over a fire.
Where this word comes from
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.
Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
Where this word comes from
N-less (or nonnasal) variant of dang, a euphemism for damn.
One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so.
Where this word comes from
Perhaps a back-formation from daggy, or, a specialised sense of British dialect dag, a daring feat amongst boys.
A misty shower; dew.
Where this word comes from
Of North Germanic origin, probably to Old Norse dag (“drizzle, haze, mist, dew”); compare Old Swedish dag, Swedish dagg (“dew”), vs Old Swedish dug (“drizzle”) Swedish dugg (“drizzle”). Doublet of dew.
To be misty; to drizzle.
Where this word comes from
Of North Germanic origin, probably to Old Norse dag (“drizzle, haze, mist, dew”); compare Old Swedish dag, Swedish dagg (“dew”), vs Old Swedish dug (“drizzle”) Swedish dugg (“drizzle”). Doublet of dew.
A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
Where this word comes from
Initialism of directed acyclic graph.
Pronunciation spelling of dog.
Ellipsis of dag sandwich.
Where this word comes from
Clipping of dagwood.
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