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cag

cag noun: a keg. Also the clipping of cagoule.

Noun (1)

cag (plural cags)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) A keg.

Noun (2)

cag (plural cags)

  1. (dialectal) A projecting piece left on a tree or shrub when a branch is severed; knob; stump.
  2. (dialectal) The stump of a broken tooth; a tooth standing alone.
  3. (dialectal) An angular tear or rent in a piece of cloth.

Verb

cag (third-person singular simple present cags, present participle cagging, simple past and past participle cagged)

  1. (dialectal, slang, transitive) To vex; annoy; insult, offend; grieve.
    • If a little petulance be discovered in SPRING's printed reply, perhaps it was cagged out of him by the very unceremonious manner of approach adopted by Langan and Reynolds […]1824, Pierce Egan, Boxiana; Or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism, page 344
  2. (dialectal, slang, transitive) To chatter, gossip.

Noun (3) capitalized: CAG

CAG (countable and uncountable, plural CAGs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of commander of the air group.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of compound annual growth.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Comptroller and Auditor General.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of coronary artery graft.
  5. The nucleobase coding triplet cytosine (C), adenine (A), guanine (G).
  6. (abbreviation, initialism, machine learning) Initialism of context-augmented generation.

Proper noun capitalized: CAG

CAG

  1. (China, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Church of Almighty God, a neo-Christian movement in China.

Also used as

cag is also the clipping of cagoule.

Synonyms of cag

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Forms of cag

Noun
pluralcags
alternative formkag
alternative formkyag
pluralCAGs
Verb
third-person singular presentcags
present participlecagging
past participlecagged
pastcagged

Plural of cag: cags

Origin of cag

From Middle English kag, of North Germanic origin, related to Old Norse kaggi, Swedish kagge.

Shortening.

From English dialect, from Middle English *kagge, perhaps from Old Norse *kagi, *kaggi, from Proto-Germanic *kagô (“bush, stump”). Cognate with dialectal German Kag (“cabbage stalk, stump”), Swedish kage (“treestump”). Possibly from the same root as Old Norse kaggi (“barrel, cask, keg”). Doublet of chag.

Words formed from cag

Questions about cag

What does cag mean?
Cag means a keg.
What part of speech is cag?
Cag can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of cag?
The plural of cag is cags.

Words near cag in the dictionary

  1. cafés noirs
  2. caféteria
  3. caféterias
  4. cafétéria
  5. cafétérias
  6. cag
  7. Cag-abaca
  8. Cag-anahaw
  9. Cag-anibong
  10. Cag-olango
  11. Cagaba

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