Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A tough old goose.
- n. Unwholesome or loathsome meat; offal.
- n. An inferior kind of sheep.
- Unwholesome; decaying; caggy: as, cagmag meat; hence, inferior: as, cagmag wares.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, dialect A tough old goose.
- n. UK, dialect, by extension Coarse, bad food of any kind.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Prov. Eng. A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind.
Examples
“One night Barty and I dined at a little cagmag he used to frequent, where he fared well -- so he said -- for a shilling, which included a glass of stout.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cagmag’.
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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Valuseless
Of low worth or little importance.
Unwanted matter by drusky is a nice, related list.trivial, cheap, inutile, ineffectual, dross, floccinaucinihili..., gimcrack, frippery, invalidated, drivel, otiose, tripe and 91 more...
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Lees
Items of little or no value that are left behind by physical or biological processes other than passing through an alimentary canal. See also Valse's Leftovers and reesetee's Hogwash! for other tak...
lees, dross, dregs, orts, debris, jetsam, flotsam, rubbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and 130 more...
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Words featured in Mrs. Byrne's Dictio...
Selections from Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (University Books, 1974). Definitions in the comments when not available elsewhere.
apanthropy, anoetic, aristology, ayne, bibliopole, bibliotaph, calecannon, caoine, catlap, chirospasm, clamjamfry, coadunate and 174 more...
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Yuck
Icky, ooey things, grossness or sundry objectionables.
quaggy, gurry, trepan, head cheese, bodewash, casu marzu, lardon, balut, nidhoggr, tarantelli, dairy group, vesiga and 58 more...
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left-eyed flounders and other stretches
created to break clichés and cause temporary floundering
bothidae, flatfish, parabolic parables, tonguefish, after-image, anaglyph, Fotheringhay, aegilops, asquint, chicane, exedra, piñon jay and 66 more...
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That's Just Offal
Edible organ meats and leftover parts.
blood sausage, blood pudding, black pudding, scrapple, brawn, headcheese, drob, giblets, chitlins, chitlings, chitterlings, haggis and 55 more...
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Balderdashisms
Tweets
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bilby "The late Sir Nicholas Fairbairn escaped rebuke, but not disdain, by describing women MPs as 'mostly hideous — they have no fragrance and I dislike women who deny their femininity. They are just cagmags, scrub heaps, old tattles.'"
- BBC News, 8 Dec. 2005. Jun 26, 2009
mollusque Rotten meat; offal; anything worthless. Nov 23, 2007