snag

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• Australian, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /snæɡ/
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• British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales: /snaɡ/
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• Australian: /snæːɡ/
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• New-Zealand: /snɛɡ/
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• /sneɪ̯ɡ/ Upper Midwestern US, Northwestern US, Canada
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• rhymes with -æɡ
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• CMU ARPABET: S N AE1 G Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From earlier snag (“stump or branch of a tree”), from Middle English *snagge, *snage, from Old Norse snagi (“clothes peg”) (compare Old Norse snag-hyrndr (“snag-horned, having jagged corners”)), perhaps related to *sneganą, *snakaną (“to crawl, creep, wind about”) if the original meaning of the root *sneg- was more like “pointy object, stinging creature”. Note also *snakkōną (“to snap at, smack the lips; to blow”) (German schnacken (“to chat”)) and English sneck, snatch. Compare Norwegian snag, snage (“protrusion; projecting point”), Icelandic snagi (“peg”). Also see the Dutch-origin fish names snoek and snook.

The Australian National Dictionary Centre suggests that snag as slang for "sausage" most likely derives from the earlier British slang for "light meal", although it makes no comment on how it came to be specifically applied to sausages.Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms The word's use in football slang originates as a shortening of "sausage roll", rhyming slang for "goal", to sausage, and hence, by synonymy, snag.

116 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: и́ҵху ахџы́џ (ícʼxu axdẑə́dẑ) — stump or base of a branch
• Abkhaz: ада́ц шамоу (adác ŝamow) — stump or base of a branch
• Finnish: oksantynkä — stump or base of a branch
• French: aspérité — stump or base of a branch
• French: chicot — stump or base of a branch
• German: Aststumpf — stump or base of a branch
• German: Aststummel — stump or base of a branch
• Hungarian: csonk — stump or base of a branch
• Persian: سرشاخه (saršâxe) — stump or base of a branch
• Polish: tylec — stump or base of a branch
• Polish: sęk — stump or base of a branch
• Russian: коря́га (korjága) — stump or base of a branch
• Slovak: suk — stump or base of a branch
• Spanish: siete — stump or base of a branch
• Spanish: rasgón — stump or base of a branch
• Ottoman Turkish: بوداق (budak) — stump or base of a branch
• Bulgarian: сухо дърво (suho dǎrvo) — a dead tree that remains standing
• Ingrian: hako — a dead tree that remains standing
• Italian: albero morto in piedi — a dead tree that remains standing
• Spanish: árbol muerto en pie — a dead tree that remains standing
• Belarusian: корч (korč) — tree fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water
• Belarusian: карча́жына (karčážyna) — tree fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water
• Belarusian: карча́к (karčák) — tree fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water
• Finnish: uppotukki — tree fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water
• French: chicot — tree fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water
• German: Baumstumpf — tree fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water
• Māori: taitā — tree fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water
• Russian: топля́к (toplják) — tree fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water
• Russian: коря́га (korjága) — tree fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water
• Ukrainian: корч (korč) — tree fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water
• Hungarian: kiálló rész (hegyes) — sharp protuberant part of an object
• Hungarian: bütyök — sharp protuberant part of an object
• Māori: kātara — sharp protuberant part of an object
• Slovak: hrboľ — sharp protuberant part of an object
• Slovak: výčnelok — sharp protuberant part of an object
• Bulgarian: стърчащ/счупен зъб (stǎrčašt/sčupen zǎb) — tooth projecting beyond the rest
• Finnish: ulkoneva hammas — tooth projecting beyond the rest
• French: chicot — tooth projecting beyond the rest
• German: Zahnstumpf — tooth projecting beyond the rest
• Bulgarian: неочаквано препятствие (neočakvano prepjatstvie) — problem or difficulty
• Czech: zádrhel — problem or difficulty
• Czech: háček — problem or difficulty
• Czech: potíž — problem or difficulty
• Finnish: pulma — problem or difficulty
• French: pépin — problem or difficulty
• French: hic — problem or difficulty
• French: couac — problem or difficulty
• French: accroc — problem or difficulty
• German: Haken — problem or difficulty
• German: springender Punkt — problem or difficulty
• German: Problem — problem or difficulty
• Hungarian: bökkenő — problem or difficulty
• Hungarian: akadály — problem or difficulty
• Hungarian: nehézség — problem or difficulty
• Hungarian: gond — problem or difficulty
• Hungarian: baj — problem or difficulty
• Italian: intoppo — problem or difficulty
• Japanese: 些細なトラブル (sasai na toraburu) — problem or difficulty
• Norwegian Bokmål: ulempe — problem or difficulty
• Old English: wirn — problem or difficulty
• Old English: wearn — problem or difficulty
• Old English: hremmung — problem or difficulty
• Russian: препя́тствие (prepjátstvije) — problem or difficulty
• Russian: загво́здка (zagvózdka) — problem or difficulty
• Scottish Gaelic: duilgheadas — problem or difficulty
• Scottish Gaelic: staing — problem or difficulty
• Slovak: zádrheľ — problem or difficulty
• Spanish: pega — problem or difficulty
• Spanish: intrígulis — problem or difficulty
• Swedish: krux — problem or difficulty
• Swedish: hake — problem or difficulty
• Swedish: stötesten — problem or difficulty
• Swedish: aber — problem or difficulty
• French: accroc — pulled thread or yarn
• Bulgarian: изваден конец (izvaden konec) — pulled thread or yarn
• Finnish: langanpää — pulled thread or yarn
• German: Fadenzieher — pulled thread or yarn
• Japanese: ほつれ (hotsure) — pulled thread or yarn
• Spanish: roto — pulled thread or yarn
• Spanish: desgarrón — pulled thread or yarn
• Spanish: jirón — pulled thread or yarn
• Spanish: siete — pulled thread or yarn
• French: andouiller — one of the secondary branches of an antler
• Polish: odrostek — one of the secondary branches of an antler
• Finnish: skäägä — informal: sausage
• Russian: сосиска (sosiska) — informal: sausage
• Bulgarian: закачам се (zakačam se) — to catch or tear
• Czech: zachytit — to catch or tear
• Czech: zachytit se — to catch or tear
• Czech: natrhnout — to catch or tear
• Czech: natrhnout se — to catch or tear
• Czech: roztrhnout — to catch or tear
• Czech: roztrhnout se — to catch or tear
• Czech: zatrhnout — to catch or tear
• Dutch: ritsen — to catch or tear
• French: accrocher — to catch or tear
• Hungarian: akaszt — to catch or tear
• Hungarian: (to be snagged) akad — to catch or tear
• Hungarian: beleakad — to catch or tear
• Hungarian: kiszakít — to catch or tear
• Hungarian: felsért — to catch or tear
• Japanese: ほつれる (hotsureru) — to catch or tear
• Japanese: 裂ける (sakeru) — to catch or tear
• Japanese: 破ける (yabukeru) — to catch or tear
• Polish: zadrzeć — to catch or tear
• Spanish: enganchar — to catch or tear
• Spanish: trabar — to catch or tear
• Spanish: atorar — to catch or tear
• Japanese: さびく (sabiku) — fishing: to fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line
• Japanese: さっかける (sakkakeru) — fishing: to fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line
• Japanese: ひっかける (hikkakeru) — fishing: to fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line
• Māori: hiwi — fishing: to fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line
• German: sich schnappen — slang: to pick up
• German: ergattern — slang: to pick up
• Ukrainian: перехо́плювати (perexópljuvaty) — slang: to pick up
• Ukrainian: перехопи́ти (perexopýty) — slang: to pick up