Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A lock of matted or dung-coated wool.
- n. A hanging end or shred.
- abbr. decagram.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In parts of Scotland, a thin or gentle rain, a thick fog or mist, or a heavy shower.
- To bedew; daggle.
- To rain gently; drizzle: as, it dags.
- To run thick.
- n. A dagger (which see).
- n. A pistol; a long, heavy pistol, with the handle only slightly curved, formerly in use. Also called, especially in Scotland, tack.
- n. [From the verb.] A stab or thrust with a dagger.
- To pierce or stab with a dagger.
- To cut into slips.
- To cut out a pattern on (the edge of a garment).
- To cut off the skirts of, as the fleece of sheep.
- n. A loose pendent end; a pointed strip or extremity.
- n. Specifically— A leather strap; a shoe-latchet, or the like.
- n. An ornamental pointed form, one of many into which the edge of a garment was cut, producing an effect something like a fringe: used especially in the second half of the fourteenth century. Also spelled dagge.
- n. A short tapering or pointed piece of metal like the point of a dagger, used to interlock timbers with each other, or to form the stabbing or piercing teeth on rolls for breaking coal.
- n. The first antler of a buck, which is slender, almost straight, and without branches, thus resembling a dagger or dag.
Wiktionary
- n. metrology Symbol for the decagram, an SI unit of mass equal to 101 grams.
- n. 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.
- n. A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
- v. To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
- n. A skewer.
- n. A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
- v. transitive To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
- v. transitive To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
- interj. US, informal Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
- n. One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance.
- n. graph theory A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair such that is a subset of some partial ordering relation on .
- v. UK, dialect To be misty; to drizzle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A dagger; a poniard.
- n. obsolete A large pistol formerly used.
- n. (Zoöl.) The unbranched antler of a young deer.
- n. obsolete A misty shower; dew.
- n. A loose end; a dangling shred.
- v. Prov. Eng. To daggle or bemire.
- v. obsolete To cut into jags or points; to slash.
- v. Prov. Eng. To be misty; to drizzle.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 10 grams
- n. a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
Etymologies
- Initialism for directed acyclic graph. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English dagge, shred. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Frank and Dean, in an improvisational routine, started calling each other 'dag'.”
“Even though Frank had used the phrase 'dag' for years as a short version of 'dago' when he was bonding with fellow Italian Americans, Joey -- who had recently been lauded for his defence of Italian Americans on The Jack Paar Show -- became offended and left.”
“(Frank used to call his buddies of Italian-American heritage the nickname 'dag', 4 shortened version of 'dago', which to Frank meant paisano.)”
“I'm a dreadful ` 80s kind of dag, a child of that era," she said.”
“And if you were Benji's age, you'll remember the party at the roller rink, the Apple II+, the Tears for Fears video and the way everybody said "dag," a word expressive of such complex emotion that you couldn't possibly articulate its meaning.”
“When Kerry isn't being a total dag, his meta view of Australian cricket is very insightful.”
The Guardian: Aussie cricket commentators have been a breath of fresh air on air | Rob Bagchi
“I thought so --- then leave a comment, dag nab it!”
“By dag in Everything Else on Nov 5, 2009 at 7: 30 am”
“Altai, Galsan Tschinag has written, comes from ala, multi-coloured, and dag, mountain.”
“I felt like a bit of a dag but then the lovely Ryan from the George Eastman House said it was also a title he'd wanted to use and that made me feel better.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dag’.
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Noteworthy Words
Here I have in mind a list of words that could be spelled with only the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, and G--and thus could also be played as a tune on the piano.
face, ace, bag, cage, bad, fad, fade, fee, gee, beg, fed, deaf and 98 more...
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phrontistery - d
from phrontistery.info
dacnomania, dacoitage, dacryops, dactylioglyph, dactyliology, dactyliomancy, dactylogram, dactylography, dactyloid, dactylology, dactylomancy, dactylomegaly and 624 more...
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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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SCIE - graph theory
morphism, preorder, diagram, vector, quiver, functor, ancestor, successor, parent, simple, source, embedding and 423 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Norwegian male names
ola, per, åge, are, audun, asbjørn, arnfinn, amund, arne, asgeir, arve, åsmund and 122 more...
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pax australiana
first in, best dr..., chalk and cheese, chuck a sickie, banana bender, sandgroper, croweater, budgie smuggler, bludge, bathers, swimmers, bogan, buck's night and 73 more...
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Cloudstreet
From Cloudstreet by Tim Winton. Expect lots of new-to-me words and/or just pleasing words encountered in this book, perhaps mostly Australian slang.
chiack, staggerjuice, thunderbox, patterson's curse, cactus, dreckly, compo, hayburner, mulie, carn, dag, grizzle and 34 more...
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Magic or Madness
Words from the glossaries in the back of the novels.
ambo, arse, bickie, biscuit, bloke, boong, bottlebrush, bronze medallion, bugger, bunyip, cardie, chips and 79 more...
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boggled
legal according to the dicker we use
shaw, taw, nowt, tew, frit, scow, trow, dow, roan, stipe, shew, woad and 31 more...
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Australiana
quokka, wombat, numbat, bonzer, grouse, woop woop, not the full quid, zac, mate, koala, chunder, vegemite and 49 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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Writing Exercise 1
Ex 4 & 12 from Creative Writing Coursebook p6 & p26
inveracity, cribble, flux, dag, parergon, fractal, cat, gowan, durmast, zedoary, monophobia, sockdologer and 22 more...
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RileyxRadical
all the words/names/phrases that I use often :)
radical, grody, coolio, smicket, gloop, eff, dag, dern, let's blow this p..., pookie, smuckems, looney and 4 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dag.

knitandpurl "This time the truck goes up the hill in reverse and the kids elbow each other and feel a right bunch of dags heading up like that, but they're the first to see the rivermouth, the oilstill river and roiling sea; it looks so like a picture they're suddenly quiet."
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, p 26 of the Graywolf Press hardcover edition Mar 27, 2010
nuxiy Norwegian for "a day" Mar 29, 2009
frindley sionnach has omitted the crucial thing about dags: they're still attached to the sheep, usually around its nether regions. Mar 29, 2009
mager From an AOL username. Nov 10, 2007
sionnach dirty tatted tuft of sheep's wool Oct 16, 2007
pamelad A dag has more personality than a nerd. Dec 12, 2006