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intj
Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, informal
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noun
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.
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noun
A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
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noun
A skewer.
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noun
A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
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noun
A dagger; a poniard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A kind of large pistol.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
The unbranched antler of a young deer.
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noun
One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, derogatory, slang
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noun
An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, obsolete, slang
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noun
A misty shower; dew.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: graph-theory, mathematics, sciences
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noun
Pronunciation spelling of dog.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
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noun
Ellipsis of dag sandwich.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Topics: food, lifestyle
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noun
Ellipsis of Dagwood sandwich.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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Synonyms: Dag sandwich
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noun
Initialism of deputy attorney general.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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noun
Acronym of directed acyclic graph.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Topics: computer, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, science, sciences
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noun
Initialism of defense acquisition guide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: law
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noun
Initialism of diacylglycerol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
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verb
To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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verb
To skewer food, for roasting over a fire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To be misty; to drizzle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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noun
a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: jag
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Broader terms: flap
noun
10 grams
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: dekagram, decagram, dkg
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Broader terms: metric weight unit, weight unit
History
N-less (or nonnasal) variant of dang, a euphemism for damn.
From Middle English dagge, of uncertain (probably Germanic) origin, cognate with (Middle) Dutch dag, dagge, dagh. The sense "dangling lock of wool, matted with dung" (originally from the dialect of Kent) is also termed "daglock" (derived from the "hanging end" sense of "dag") or "daggle-lock" and some sources consider the sense a shortening of that longer word rather than a mere evolution of the "hanging end" sense.
From Old French dague (from Old Occitan dague, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *daca (“Dacian knife”), from the Roman province Dacia (roughly modern Romania); the ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix, as in poignard (“dagger”)); cognate with dagger.
Perhaps a back-formation from daggy, or, a specialised sense of British dialect dag, a daring feat amongst boys.
Of North Germanic origin; compare Swedish dagg. Doublet of dew.
Initialism of directed acyclic graph.
Clipping of dagwood.
Across languages
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