dag
To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formationTo shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
» As said by Dag, I wrote, "It was the most delicious." on the guest-book of the restaurant yesterday.
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5 sensesTo shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
(transitive)To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
(transitive)To skewer food, for roasting over a fire.
(UK, dialectal)To be misty; to drizzle.
(dialectal, obsolete)To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.
Examples
1 sentencesAs said by Dag, I wrote, "It was the most delicious." on the guest-book of the restaurant yesterday.
Origin
From Middle English dagge, of uncertain (probably Germanic) origin, cognate with (Middle)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.
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.
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Forms
dags, dagging, dagged, daggedWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle