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. (British, 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”). Doublet of chag.

Alternative forms

• kag, kyag

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.

Derived terms

• cack-handed

 

Etymology 4

Uncertain. Cognate with Scots kag, kagg (“to vex, grieve”). Perhaps from Middle English caggen (“to tie, bind”), possibly from or related to Old Norse kǫgurr (“quilt, blanket, bedcover, coffin cloth”). Alternatively, perhaps allied with Norwegian Nynorsk kjaka (“to wrangle, harass”).

Verb

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

1. (slang, now dialectal, transitive) To vex; annoy; insult, offend; grieve.

   Synonyms: distress; see also Thesaurus:vex

   • 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 […]

2. (slang, now dialectal, transitive) To chatter, gossip.

   Synonyms: tittle-tattle; see also Thesaurus:gossip

Derived terms

• caggy
• cag-mag

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• GAC, ACG, gac, AGC, CGA

Mapudungun

Alternative forms

• chang (Unified Alphabet)

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 f

1. foot

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong *ɟoŋᴬ (“root”); probably related to Proto-Mien *ndzuŋᴬ (“id”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ca˧˩̤/

Noun

cag

1. root

   Ntoo muaj cag loj. ― The tree has a big root.

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], 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

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ɕaːk˧/
• Tone numbers: cag⁸
• Hyphenation: cag

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

• bengcag