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jagg

jagg is the alternative form of jag.

Meaning of jag

Noun

jag (plural jags)

  1. A sharp projection.
    • garments thus beset with long jagges and pursles1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC
  2. A part broken off; a fragment.
    • some Jaggs will ſuffice to be recited1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata
  3. A flap, a tear in a clothing
  4. A cleft or division.
  5. (Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.
  6. (Pennsylvania, Western, dialectal) A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).

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Forms of jagg

pluraljaggs

Questions about jagg

What is jagg the alternative form of?
Jagg is the alternative form of jag.

Words near jagg in the dictionary

  1. jager
  2. Jagera
  3. jagerbomb
  4. jagerbombs
  5. jagers
  6. jagg
  7. Jagganaut
  8. Jaggard
  9. Jaggards
  10. jaggaries
  11. jaggary

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