cag

See also: CAG, çağ, cág, and Çağ

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English kag, of North Germanic origin, related to Old Norse kaggi, Swedish kagge.

Noun

cag (plural cags)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) A keg.

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

cag (plural cags)

  1. (Britain, informal) Short for cagoule.

Etymology 3

From English dialect, from Middle English *kagge, perhaps from Old Norse *kagi, *kaggi, from Proto-Germanic *kagô (“bush, stump”). Cognate with dialectal German Kag (“cabbage stalk, stump”), Swedish kage (“treestump”). Possibly from the same root as Old Norse kaggi (“barrel, cask, keg”).[1] Doublet of chag.

Alternative forms

Noun

cag (plural cags)

  1. (dialectal) A projecting piece left on a tree or shrub when a branch is severed; knob; stump.
  2. (dialectal) The stump of a broken tooth; a tooth standing alone.
  3. (dialectal) An angular tear or rent in a piece of cloth.

Verb

cag (third-person singular simple present cags, present participle cagging, simple past and past participle cagged)

  1. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To vex; to annoy.
    • 1824, Pierce Egan, Boxiana; Or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism (page 344)
      If a little petulance be discovered in SPRING's printed reply, perhaps it was cagged out of him by the very unceremonious manner of approach adopted by Langan and Reynolds […]
References
  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

References
  1. Liberman, A. (2009). Word Origins And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone. United States: Oxford University Press, p. 179

Anagrams

Mapudungun

Alternative forms

Noun

cag (Raguileo spelling)

  1. (anatomy) leg
  2. (anatomy) thigh
  3. hook

References
  • Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Somali

Noun

cag ?

  1. foot

White Hmong

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ca˧˩̤/

Noun

cag

  1. root.

References
  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ɟɤːkᴰ (“rope; cord”). Cognate with Thai เชือก (chʉ̂ʉak), Lao ເຊືອກ (sư̄ak), Lü ᦵᦋᦲᧅ (tsoek), Tai Dam ꪹꪋꪀ, Shan ၸိူၵ်ႈ (tsōek), Tai Nüa ᥓᥫᥐ (tsoek), Ahom 𑜋𑜢𑜤𑜀𑜫 (chük), Nong Zhuang zowg.

Pronunciation

Noun

cag (Sawndip forms 𰫦 or 䋏 or 䌇 or ⿰糹长, 1957–1982 spelling cag)

  1. rope; string; cord
    Synonym: (dialectal) cieg

Derived terms
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