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dags

dags is the plural of dag.

dags is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dag.

Meaning of 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

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
  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

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Noun (1) capitalized: DAGs

DAGs

  1. (plural) plural of DAG

Noun (2) capitalized: Dags

Dags

  1. (plural) plural of Dag

Phrases with dags

Questions about dags

What is dags the plural of?
Dags is the plural of dag.
What part of speech is dags?
Dags is a noun.

Words near dags in the dictionary

  1. dagos
  2. Dagostino
  3. Dagostinos
  4. Dagou
  5. DAgr
  6. dags
  7. dags out
  8. Dagsboro
  9. dagswain
  10. dagswains
  11. Dagu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dags (page history and authors); DAGs (page history and authors); Dags (page history and authors); dag (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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