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jagoff

jagoff noun: an irritating, inept, or repugnant person.

Noun

jagoff (plural jagoffs)

  1. (Pennsylvania, Western, derogatory, dialectal, Chicago) An irritating, inept, or repugnant person.
    • You don't look like a Mullen. In fact, you look like a Chekov, or a jag-off.1940, Joseph Shannon, "Hodge-Podge", in Spring Hill Quarterly (Spring 1940), Spring Hill College, page 20
    • “Listen, jaggoff, I've got a whole treasure trove of Philly magazines, okay? One of 'em's got a picture of Darren Daulton in a tux eating a hotdog.” “That one where he got the mustard on his face?” “Yeah, that's the one.” “Oh, that would move here for sure.”2014 March 4, Nick Kroll, “Mercury Poisoning” (5:10 from the start), in Kroll Show, season 2, episode 8, spoken by Don (Jon Daly)
    Synonyms:
    dickwad, douchebag, idiot, jerk, jagwagon, for more

Synonyms of jagoff

Forms of jagoff

pluraljagoffs

Origin of jagoff

From jag.

Questions about jagoff

What does jagoff mean?
Jagoff means an irritating, inept, or repugnant person.
What part of speech is jagoff?
Jagoff is a noun.
What is the plural of jagoff?
The plural of jagoff is jagoffs.

Words near jagoff in the dictionary

  1. Jagoda
  2. Jagodas
  3. Jagodnjak
  4. Jagodzinski
  5. Jagodzinskis
  6. jagoff
  7. jagoffs
  8. Jagoi
  9. jagoite
  10. jagong
  11. Jagose

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