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dagged

dagged is the simple past and past participle of dag.

Meaning of dag

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
  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

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.

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.

See all 17 meanings of dag

Phrases with dagged

Questions about dagged

What is dagged the simple past and past participle of?
Dagged is the simple past and past participle of dag.

Words near dagged in the dictionary

  1. Dagestanis
  2. Dagg
  3. dagga
  4. daggas
  5. dagge
  6. dagged
  7. dagged out
  8. dagger
  9. dagger board
  10. dagger boards
  11. dagger moth

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