Dag

Translingual

Symbol

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Template:Der, of uncertain (probably Template:Der) origin, cognate with (Middle) Dutch Template:M, Template:M, Template:M. The sense "dangling lock of wool, matted with dung" (originally from the dialect of Kent^[1]) is also termed "daglock" (derived from the "hanging end" sense of "dag") or "Template:L" and some sources consider the sense a shortening of that longer word rather than a mere evolution of the "hanging end" sense.

Noun

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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.
- 1597-98 1597–8, Template:W Joseph Hall Satires, Book 5, number 1:
  To see the dunged folds of dag-tayled sheepe.
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  Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.
- 1998, Wool: Volume 8, Issue 10, as published by the Massey Wool Association:
  He was one of the first significant private buyers of wool in New Zealand, playing a major part in bringing respectability to what at first was a very diverse group. He pioneered the pelletising of dag waste.
- 1999, G. C. Waghorn, N. G. Gregory, S. E. Todd, and R. Wesselink, Dags in sheep; a look at faeces and reasons for dag formation, published in the Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association 61, on pages 43–49:
  The development of dags first requires some faeces to adhere to wool, but this is only the initial step in accumulation.
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- 2006, in the compilation of the Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, volume 46, issues 1-5, published by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia), on page 7:
  [Researchers] note that free pellets are characteristic of healthy sheep and that if sheep consistently produced free pellets, wool staining and dag formation would not occur.

Synonyms

Derived terms

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Verb

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To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
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Template:Lb To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
Template:Lb To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.
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Derived terms

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References

↑ James Lambert The Macquarie Australian Slang Dictionary (Sydney: Macquarie Library) 2004, page 58.

Etymology 2

From Template:Der (from Template:Der, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Template:Der, from the Roman province Dacia (roughly modern Romania); the ending is possibly the faintly pejorative Template:M suffix, as in Template:M); cognate with Template:M.

Noun

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A skewer.
A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
Template:Lb A dagger; a poniard.
Template:Lb A kind of large pistol.
The unbranched antler of a young deer.

Verb

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Template:Lb To skewer food, for roasting over a fire

Etymology 3

Variation of Template:M. Template:Etystub

Interjection

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Template:Lb Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
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Etymology 4

Perhaps a Template:Back-form, or, a specialised sense of British dialect dag, a daring feat amongst boys.^[1]

Noun

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Template:Lb One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
- 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.
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Template:Lb An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so.

Usage notes

May be used as form of endearment, perhaps with the intention of indicating fellowship or sympathy with regard to apparent rejection of societal norms.

Synonyms

Template:L, Template:L, Template:L; see also Thesaurus:untidy person

Related terms

Translations

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References

↑ James Lambert The Macquarie Australian Slang Dictionary (Sydney: Macquarie Library) 2004, page 58.

Etymology 6

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Noun

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Template:Lb 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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Etymology 7

Noun

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Template:Lb Template:Pronunciation spelling of
- 2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch, quoted in, Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino, Translation and Localisation in Video Games: Making Entertainment Software Global, Routledge Template:ISBN, page 68:
  Mickey: Dags! D' ya like dags?
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Anagrams

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Der. Cognate with Template:Cog.

Noun

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a day

Etymology 2

From Template:Inh, shortening of Template:M, from Template:M + Template:M.

Interjection

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hello!
bye-bye!

Etymology 3

From Template:Inh.

Alternative forms

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Verb

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Danish

Etymology

From Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, cognate with Template:Cog, Template:Cog.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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day

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Inh.

Noun

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day Template:Gloss
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daytime Template:Gloss
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Template:Qualifier a meeting or assembly with legal or political power, originally convened on a specific day; a diet

Usage notes

In archaic or dialectal usage, the older plural form Template:M may occur after numerals. On rare occasions the expression Template:M is still found in contemporary standard Dutch.

Synonyms

(24 hours) Template:L

Derived terms

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Descendants

Interjection

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hello, short for Template:M 'goodday; goodbye'
goodbye, same shortening

Synonyms

Descendants

Etymology 2

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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a piece of rope, used to punish sailors with, on the spot or in running the gauntlet
a line used to fasten young sailors while training boarding a hostile ship or climbing the rigging