daggy
UK/ˈdæɡi/
daggy adjective: uncool, unfashionable, but comfortably so.
Adjective
daggy (comparative daggier or more daggy, superlative daggiest or most daggy)
- Uncool, unfashionable, but comfortably so.
- "But I remember everything about that day. What everyone was wearing, all the daggy things people said in the car on the way into town. The smell of stubble, upholstery. The taste of tomato in my throat from lunch."2004, Tim Winton, “Abbreviation”, in The Turning, UK Paperback edition, Picador, page 27
- We wore hippie clothes, looking more daggy than cool.2006, Debra Byrne, Not Quite Ripe: A Memoir, page 49
Examples of daggy in a sentence
- I began to feel even more daggy when Bianca swanned me around to meet her sexy, skinny and beautiful friends.2008, Bella Vendramini, Biting the Big Apple: A Memoir of Life, Love (okay and Sex) in New York City, unnumbered page:
- Actually this wasn′t too bad as a jazz venue, being in the daggiest pub in the daggiest part of Capalaba which, in 2004 was still a pretty daggy suburb.2011, Chris Buch, Hello Sunshine: A Blitz Kid's Journey to the Sunshine State, page 288:
- “Yeah, I know, I-I was starting to like her too, even though she said I dress "daggy," whatever that means.”2024 August 12, Scott Gallopo, “The Solar Opposites Do An Intervention” (15:32 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 5, episode 7...
- In a daggy Canadian nightclub, Clark Kent lookalike Clif asked Pilar Mitchell for a dance – and her life changed[.]2025 January 11, Pilar Mitchell, “The moment I knew: I’d never felt a palm so sweaty. I was smitten”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Forms of daggy
| comparative | daggier |
|---|---|
| comparative | more daggy |
| superlative | daggiest |
| superlative | most daggy |
Origin of daggy
From dag + -y.
Words formed from daggy
Words that rhyme with daggy
Questions about daggy
- What does daggy mean?
- Daggy means uncool, unfashionable, but comfortably so.
- How do you use daggy in a sentence?
- I began to feel even more daggy when Bianca swanned me around to meet her sexy, skinny and beautiful friends.
- What part of speech is daggy?
- Daggy is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce daggy?
- Daggy is pronounced /ˈdæɡi/ (UK).
Words near daggy in the dictionary
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