Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation decagram
  • noun A lock of matted or dung-coated wool.
  • noun A hanging end or shred.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dagger (which see).
  • noun A pistol; a long, heavy pistol, with the handle only slightly curved, formerly in use. Also called, especially in Scotland, tack.
  • noun [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.
  • noun A loose pendent end; a pointed strip or extremity.
  • noun Specifically— A leather strap; a shoe-latchet, or the like.
  • noun 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.
  • To bedew; daggle.
  • To rain gently; drizzle: as, it dags.
  • To run thick.
  • noun 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.
  • noun The first antler of a buck, which is slender, almost straight, and without branches, thus resembling a dagger or dag.
  • noun In parts of Scotland, a thin or gentle rain, a thick fog or mist, or a heavy shower.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A misty shower; dew.
  • noun A loose end; a dangling shred.
  • noun obsolete A dagger; a poniard.
  • noun obsolete A large pistol formerly used.
  • noun (Zoöl.) The unbranched antler of a young deer.
  • transitive verb Prov. Eng. To daggle or bemire.
  • transitive verb obsolete To cut into jags or points; to slash.
  • intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To be misty; to drizzle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun 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.
  • noun A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
  • verb To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
  • noun metrology Symbol for the decagram, an SI unit of mass equal to 101 grams.
  • noun One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance.
  • interjection US, informal Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
  • noun A skewer.
  • noun A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
  • verb transitive To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
  • verb transitive To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
  • noun graph theory A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair such that is a subset of some partial ordering relation on .
  • verb UK, dialect To be misty; to drizzle.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun 10 grams
  • noun a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English dagge, shred.]

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From Old English dagge, of uncertain (probably Germanic) origin, cognate with (Middle) Dutch dag, dagge, dagh.

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From daglock or daggle-lock.

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Back-formation from daggy.

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Variation of dang This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology.

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From Old French dague (from Old Provençal 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.

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Initialism for directed acyclic graph.

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  • A dag has more personality than a nerd.

    December 12, 2006

  • dirty tatted tuft of sheep's wool

    October 16, 2007

  • From an AOL username.

    November 10, 2007

  • sionnach has omitted the crucial thing about dags: they're still attached to the sheep, usually around its nether regions.

    March 29, 2009

  • Norwegian for "a day"

    March 29, 2009

  • "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

    March 27, 2010