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dagging out

dagging out is the present participle and gerund of dag out.

Meaning of dag out

Verb

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

  1. (Australia, intransitive, slang) To be lazy.
  2. (slang, transitive) To dag sheep (to shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation).

Questions about dagging out

What is dagging out the present participle and gerund of?
Dagging out is the present participle and gerund of dag out.

Words near dagging out in the dictionary

  1. daggier
  2. daggiest
  3. daggily
  4. dagginess
  5. dagging
  6. dagging out
  7. daggings
  8. daggle
  9. daggle-tail
  10. daggle-tailed
  11. daggle-tails

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dagging out (page history and authors); dag out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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