dag Meaning & Definition
What Does Dag Mean?
Dag is a symbol that means Symbol for decagram, an SI unit of mass equal to 10 grams. It is also used to mean ISO 639-3 language code for Dagbani. As a noun, it means 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. As a verb, it means To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
Word Facts for Dag
| Part of speech | symbol, noun, verb, interjection |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /dæɡ/ |
| Synonyms | decagram, dekagram and dkg |
| Plural | dags |
| Verb forms | dags, dagging, dagged |
Dag Definition (Symbol)
- Symbol for decagram, an SI unit of mass equal to 10 grams.
- ISO 639-3 language code for Dagbani.
Dag as a 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.
- A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
Dag as a Verb
- To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
- To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
- To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.
Noun
- A skewer.
- A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
- A dagger; a poniard.
- A kind of large pistol.
- The unbranched antler of a young deer.
Verb
- To skewer food, for roasting over a fire.
Dag as an Interjection
- Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
Noun
- One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
- An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so.
Noun
- A misty shower; dew.
Verb
- To be misty; to drizzle.
Noun
- A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
Noun
- Pronunciation spelling of dog.
Noun
- Ellipsis of dag sandwich.
Verb
- To daggle or bemire.
Noun
- One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance.
Noun
- A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.
The dog barked all night long.
- Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
- A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
She’s a real dog.
- A man (derived from definition 2).
He's a silly dog.
- A coward.
Come back and fight, you dogs!
- Someone who is morally reprehensible.
You dirty dog.
- A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).
- Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
- A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)
- A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
The dogs were too hot to touch.
- The eighteenth Lenormand card.
- A hot dog.
- Underdog.
- (almost always in the plural) Foot.
- (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
My dog is dead.
- One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
- A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
Noun
- Meat from a dog eaten as food.
We visited South Korea this time around, where we ate dog meat for the first time.
- Meat prepared to be given to a dog as food.
- An insult intended to assert hyperbolically that another person has value only as a corpse to be fed to a dog.
Did you just step on my blue suede shoes? You're dog meat now!
Synonyms of Dag
Dag in a Sentence
The dog barked all night long.
She’s a real dog.
He's a silly dog.
Come back and fight, you dogs!
You dirty dog.
The dogs were too hot to touch.
My dog is dead.
We visited South Korea this time around, where we ate dog meat for the first time.
Did you just step on my blue suede shoes? You're dog meat now!
Word Forms & Grammar
dag (plural dags)
dag (third-person singular simple present dags, present participle dagging, simple past and past participle dagged)
dag
Words That Rhyme With Dag
Origin of Dag
Origin 1: From Middle English dagge, of uncertain (probably Germanic) origin, cognate with Middle Dutch dag, dagge, dagh (modern Dutch dag, dagge). Compare French dague (“spiked end of a whipping rope”). The sense “dangling lock of wool, matted with dung” (originally from the dialect of Kent[1]) 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.
Origin 2: From Old French dague (from Old Occitan daga, 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, which see for more. The verb (rare but attested from c. 1400) is likely influenced by back-formation from dagger.
Origin 3: N-less (or nonnasal) variant of dang, a euphemism for damn.
Origin 4: Perhaps a back-formation from daggy, or, a specialised sense of British dialect dag, a daring feat amongst boys.[1]
Questions People Ask About Dag
Is dag a symbol or a noun?
Dag is mainly used as a symbol, but it can also be used as a noun, a verb and an interjection.
What is another word for dag?
You can replace dag with words such as decagram, dekagram and dkg. See the full list of dag synonyms and antonyms.
What is the plural of dag?
The plural of dag is dags.
What is the past tense of dag?
The past tense of dag is dagged. The present participle is dagging.