noun
Meaning 1
A sharp projection.
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Standard Lemma guide
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jăg
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noun
Meaning 2
A part broken off; a fragment.
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noun
Meaning 3
A flap, a tear in a clothing
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noun
Meaning 4
A cleft or division.
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Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
A medical injection, a jab.
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Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 6
A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
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Usage: Pennsylvania, Western, dialectal
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noun
Meaning 7
Ellipsis of jagoff (“an irritating, inept, or repugnant person”).
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Usage: Pennsylvania, Western, abbreviation, alt-of, derogatory, dialectal, ellipsis
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noun
Meaning 8
Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
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noun
Meaning 9
A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
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noun
Meaning 10
A fit, spell, outburst.
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noun
Meaning 11
A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
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noun
Meaning 12
A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.
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Usage: Scotland, archaic
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noun
Meaning 13
A Jaguar car.
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Usage: informal
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noun
Meaning 14
Acronym of judge advocate general.
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Usage: US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Topics: government, law, military, politics, war
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verb
Meaning 15
To cut unevenly.
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verb
Meaning 16
To pierce with a sharp object.
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Usage: Northern-England, Pennsylvania, Scotland, Western
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verb
Meaning 17
To tease.
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Usage: Pennsylvania, Western
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noun
Meaning 18
a bout of drinking or drug taking
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Broader terms: intemperance, intemperateness, self-indulgence
noun
Meaning 19
a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
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Broader terms: flap
noun
Meaning 20
a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing
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noun
Meaning 21
a sharp projection on an edge or surface
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he clutched a jag of the rock
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Broader terms: projection
verb
Meaning 22
cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge
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Broader terms: cut
Narrower terms: serrate
History
Etymology
The noun is from late Middle English jagge, from Old English giagga, giacga. The ultimate origin could be sound-symbolic of sudden movement, compare with jam, rag and Middle English dag, of which jag may be a palatalised variant. The verb is from jaggen, from Old English giacgian.
Circa 1597; originally "load of broom or furze", variant of British English dialectal chag (“tree branch; branch of broom or furze”), from Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze”), from Proto-Germanic *kagô (compare dialectal German Kag (“stump, cabbage, stalk”), Swedish dialect kage (“stumps”), Norwegian dialect kage (“low bush”), of unknown origin.
Shortening of Jaguar.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: зъбец (zǎbec) — A sharp projection
- Finnish: terävä ulkonema — A sharp projection
- Finnish: kärki — A sharp projection
- Ukrainian: зубець (zubecʹ) — A sharp projection
- Ukrainian: виступ (vystup) — A sharp projection
- Finnish: palkeenkieli — A tear in a clothing
- Finnish: repeämä — A tear in a clothing
- Bulgarian: фрагмент (fragment) — A part broken off
- Bulgarian: запой (zapoj) — binge or overindulgence
- Finnish: tuuri — binge or overindulgence
- Finnish: kohtaus — binge or overindulgence
- Georgian: შვერილი (šverili) — binge or overindulgence
- Georgian: ქონგური (konguri) — binge or overindulgence
- Italian: orgia — binge or overindulgence
- Italian: bisboccia — binge or overindulgence
- Italian: baldoria — binge or overindulgence
- Italian: sregolatezza — binge or overindulgence
- Russian: кутёж (kutjóž) — binge or overindulgence
- Bulgarian: съдирам (sǎdiram) — To cut unevenly
- Czech: zoubkovat — To cut unevenly
- Ukrainian: кремсати (kremsaty) — To cut unevenly
- Ukrainian: криво різати (kryvo rizaty) — To cut unevenly
- Ukrainian: зазублювати (zazubljuvaty) — To cut unevenly
- Ukrainian: робити зазублини (robyty zazublyny) — To cut unevenly