dag

Noun (1)

dag (plural dags)

1. 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.
2. A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
   • To see the dunged folds of dag-tayled sheepe.1597-98 1597–8, Joseph_Hall_(bishop) Joseph Hall Satires, Book 5, number 1
   • Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.1859-1865, Hensleigh Wedgwood, A Dictionary of English Etymology

Verb (1)

dag (third-person singular simple present dags, present participle dagging, simple past and past participle dagged)

1. To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
   • Blade shearers could shear, crutch, mules or dag sheep anywhere they were needed.2007, Graeme R. Quick, Remarkable Australian Farm Machines: Ingenuity on the Land
   • After learning how to crutch at 13, he could dag 400 sheep in a day by the spring of 1965 and earned himself more than just a bit of pocket money.2010 January 29, Emma Partridge, “Richie Foster a cut above the rest”, in Stock Journal
2. (transitive) To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
3. (dialectal, obsolete) To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.
   • Vexing the baths with his dagg'd rout.a. 1661, B. Holyday, Juvenal's Satires

Noun (2)

dag (plural dags)

1. A skewer.
2. A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
3. (obsolete) A dagger; a poniard.
   • Even when my dag was levelled at his heart1515, Thomas Kyd, Arden of Feversham
   • Soon after this, however, there were brought into the country these old-time dags, useful weapons which rendered far easier the labors of men and of women. These were employed for many years, but later the company sent in an improved knife, more useful for skinning and for the other purposes of...1899 May 6, “Old Hudson's Bay Dag”, in Forest and Stream, volume 52, number 18, page 347
4. (obsolete) A kind of large pistol.
   • The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some.1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC
   • Powder! No, Sir; my dag shall be my dagger.1630, Thomas Dekker, The Whore of Babylon
5. The unbranched antler of a young deer.

Verb (2)

dag (third-person singular simple present dags, present participle dagging, simple past and past participle dagged)

1. (transitive) To skewer food, for roasting over a fire.

Interjection

1. (US, informal) Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
   • Dag, yo.2002 December 2, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Teen Girl Squad Issue #1”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad as What's Her Face (Matthew Chapman)

Noun (3)

dag (plural dags)

1. (Australia, derogatory, slang) One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
   • 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.2004 July 25, Debbie Kruger, Melbourne Weekly Magazine, All the World's a Stage
   • What did you think about Mark calling you a dag?
   • To me a dag is a person who doesn't have a lot of pride in their appearance or the way they present themselves — the way they sing and how they hold themselves basically. But it didn't really bother me. He said, "You're such a dag, you're cool." I took it as "you're a laidback person". The way they...2006 September 26, “Klancie Keough eliminated”, in TV Week
2. (Australia, New Zealand, obsolete, slang) An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so.

Noun (4)

dag (plural dags)

1. A misty shower; dew.
   • I write in a part of England where the vulgar invariably use shew for the preterite showed, &c. &c. "This morning, before the dag was off, I sew seed enow for this week, and then wed two beds", was the reply returned to me by my gardener, a few days ago.1872, Fitzedward Hall, Recent Exemplifications of False Philology

Verb (3)

dag (third-person singular simple present dags, present participle dagging, simple past and past participle dagged)

1. (UK, dialectal) To be misty; to drizzle.

Noun (5)

dag (plural dags)

1. A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.

Noun (6) capitalized: DAG

DAG (countable and uncountable, plural DAGs)

1. (abbreviation, acronym, initialism) Abbreviation of deputy attorney general.
2. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of directed acyclic graph.
3. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of defense acquisition guide.
4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of diacylglycerol.

Noun (7) capitalized: Dag

Dag (plural Dags)

1. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Dagwood sandwich.

   Synonyms:

   Dag sandwich