English - Etymology 7

Of North Germanic origin; compare Swedish dagg. See dew.

Noun

dag (plural dags)

1. A misty shower; dew.

Translingual - Symbol

dag

1. (metrology) Symbol for the decagram, an SI unit of mass equal to 10¹ grams.

English - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæɡ/
• Rhymes: -æɡ

English - Etymology 1

From Old English dagge, of uncertain (probably Germanic) origin, cognate with (Middle) Dutch dag, dagge, dagh.

Noun

dag (plural dags)

1. 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.

English - Etymology 2

From daglock or daggle-lock.

Noun

dag (plural dags)

1. A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
   • Wedgwood

     Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.

   • 1998, Wool: Volume 8, Issue 10, as published by the Massey Wool Association:

     He was one of the first significant private buyers of wool in New Zealand, playing a major part in bringing respectability to what at first was a very diverse group. He pioneered the pelletising of dag waste.

   • 1999, G. C. Waghorn, N. G. Gregory, S. E. Todd, and R. Wesselink, Dags in sheep; a look at faeces and reasons for dag formation, published in the Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association 61, on pages 43–49:

     The development of dags first requires some faeces to adhere to wool, but this is only the initial step in accumulation.

   • 2004, Mette Vaarst, Animal health and welfare in organic agriculture, page 323:

     [...] and the use of tanniferous forages may affect faecal consistency, reducing the formation of dag (faeces-coated wool).

   • 2006, in the compilation of the Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, volume 46, issues 1-5, published by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia), on page 7:

     [Researchers] note that free pellets are characteristic of healthy sheep and that if sheep consistently produced free pellets, wool staining and dag formation would not occur.

Synonyms

• daglock, taglock
• daggings
• dung tag
  • 1989, Paula Simmons, Raising Sheep the Modern Way, revised edition, Storey Communications Inc., Pownal Vermont, page 212

    Remove dung tags, and do not tie them in with the fleece.

Derived terms

• daggy

Verb

dag (third-person singular simple present dags, present participle dagging, simple past and past participle dagged)

1. To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
   • 2007, Graeme R. Quick, Remarkable Australian Farm Machines: Ingenuity on the Land,

     Blade shearers could shear, crutch, mules or dag sheep anywhere they were needed.

   • 2010 January 29, Emma Partridge, Stock Journal, Richie Foster a cut above the rest,

     After learning how to crutch at 13, he could dag 400 sheep in a day by the spring of 1965 and earned himself more than just a bit of pocket money.

2. To daggle or bemire.

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English - Etymology 3

From Old French dague (from Old Provençal dague, 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.

Noun

dag (plural dags)

1. A skewer.
2. A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
3. (obsolete) A dagger; a poniard.

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4. (obsolete) A kind of large pistol.
   • Foxe

     The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some.

   • Grose

     A sort of pistol, called dag, was used about the same time as hand guns and harquebuts.

5. The unbranched antler of a young deer.

Verb

dag (third-person singular simple present dags, present participle dagging, simple past and past participle dagged)

1. (transitive) To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
2. (transitive) To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags

English - Etymology 4

Variation of dang. This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology.

Interjection

dag

1. (US, informal) Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.

English - Etymology 5

Back-formation from daggy.

Noun

dag (plural dags)

1. (Australia slang, New Zealand derogatory slang) One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance.
   • 2004 July 25, Debbie Kruger, Melbourne Weekly Magazine, All the World's a Stage,

     Now, wide-eyed and unfashionably excited ("I’m such a dag!" she remarks several times), she has the leading role of Viola in the Bell Shakespeare Company’s production of Twelfth Night, opening on August 10 at the Victorian Arts Centre Playhouse.

   • 2006 September 26, TV Week, Klancie Keough eliminated,

     What did you think about Mark calling you a dag?

     To me a dag is a person who doesn't have a lot of pride in their appearance or the way they present themselves — the way they sing and how they hold themselves basically. But it didn't really bother me. He said, "You're such a dag, you're cool." I took it as "you're a laidback person". The way they cut it and edited it made it sound on TV like I was grumpy about it, but I wasn't. It was pretty funny how it came across.

   • 2009 November 14, Daily Telegraph, Catherine Zeta - Hollywood's biggest dag?,

     SHE is one of Hollywood's most beautiful leading ladies and has access to any fashion designers, so then why is Catherine Zeta-Jones dressing like a bag lady?

   • 2010 January 15, Michael Dwyer, The Age, Talented dag plucks up the cool,

     A graduate of film studies in New York, May has had a hand in editing two of his three videos. Each casts him as a bespectacled dag in a world of glamour.

Related terms

• daggy (adj)

Synonyms

• dork, loser, nerd

Usage notes

• May be used as form of endearment, perhaps with the intention of indicating fellowship or sympathy with regard to apparent rejection of societal norms.

Translations

English - Etymology 6

Initialism for directed acyclic graph.

Noun

dag (plural dags)

1. (graph theory) A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair such that is a subset of some partial ordering relation on .

English - Etymology 8

Verb

dag (third-person singular simple present dags, present participle dagging, simple past and past participle dagged)

1. (UK, dialect) To be misty; to drizzle.

English - Anagrams

• GAD, Gad, gad, GDA

Afrikaans - Etymology 1

From Dutch dag (“day”), cognate with German Tag.

Noun

dag (plural dae, diminutive daggie)

1. a day

Afrikaans - Etymology 2

From Dutch dag, shortening of goedendag (“goodday; goodbye”), from goed (“goed, pleasant”) + dag (“day”).

Interjection

dag

1. hello!
2. bye-bye!

Afrikaans - Etymology 3

From Dutch dacht.

Alternative forms

• dog

Verb

dag

1. preterite of dink

Danish - Etymology

From Old Norse dagr, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

Danish - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): dæː
• Rhymes: -æː

Danish - Noun

dag c (singular definite dagen, plural indefinite dage)

1. day

Inflection

Dutch - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɑx/
• Rhymes: -ɑx

Dutch - Etymology 1

From Old Dutch dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”). Cognate with German Tag, West Frisian dei, English day, Danish dag.

Noun

dag m (plural dagen, diminutive dagje n or daagje n)

1. day (period of 24 hours)
2. daytime (time between sunrise and sunset)

Synonyms

• (24 hours) etmaal n

Derived terms

Interjection

dag!

1. hello, short for goedendag (“good day”) 'goodday; goodbye'
2. goodbye, same shortening

Synonyms

• (bye): daag, ciao, salut (French), saluut (Flemish), saluutjes (Flemish), vaarwel, tot ziens, tot hoors, tot horens, doei (Netherlands), doeg (Netherlands)
• (hello): hallo, hoi, heei/hey, goedendag/goeiendag, jow (familiar, Flemish), hoi (Netherlands)

Dutch - Etymology 2

Germanic, cognate with English dag (“hanging end, shred”).

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) dagge, dagh

Noun

dag f (plural daggen, diminutive dagje n)

1. A piece of rope, used to punish sailors with, on the spot or in running the gauntlet
2. A line used to fasten young sailors while training boarding a hostile ship or climbing the rigging

Synonyms

• (punitive rope): dagtouwtje n

Derived terms

• handdag

Faroese - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛaː/

Faroese - Noun

dag

1. accusative singular of dagur

Derived terms

• góðan dag!

Gothic - Romanization

dag

1. Romanization of

Indonesian - Etymology

Borrowing from Dutch dag, from goedendag (“goodday”).

Indonesian - Interjection

dag

1. hello

Lojban - Rafsi

dag

1. rafsi of dargu.

Middle Low German - Alternative Forms

• dach (more common spelling marking pronunciation rather than morphology)

Middle Low German - Etymology

From Old Saxon dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz.

Middle Low German - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʌx/

Middle Low German - Noun

dag m (genitive dages, dative dage, accusative dag, plural dage)

1. day

Norwegian Bokmål - Etymology

From Old Norse dagr, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”).

Norwegian Bokmål - Noun

dag m (definite singular dagen, indefinite plural dager, definite plural dagene)

1. a day
2. the period of time between sunrise and sunset, daytime

Related terms

• døgn

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål - References

• “dag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk - Etymology

From Old Norse dagr, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”).

Norwegian Nynorsk - Noun

dag m (definite singular dagen, indefinite plural dagar, definite plural dagane)

1. a day
2. the period of time between sunrise and sunset, daytime

Related terms

• døgn

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk - References

• “dag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Dutch - Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”).

Old Dutch - Noun

dag m

1. day

Declension

Descendants

• Dutch: dag

Old English - Noun

dāg m

1. alternative form of dāh

Old Saxon - Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, (compare Old English dæġ, Old Dutch dag, Old High German tag, Old Frisian dei, Old Norse dagr), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”).

Old Saxon - Noun

dag m

1. day

Declension

Descendants

• Dutch Low Saxon: dag
• German Low German: Dag

Swedish - Etymology

From Old Swedish dagher, from Old Norse dagr, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”).

Swedish - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɑː(ɡ)/

Swedish - Noun

dag c

1. a day
2. a day, the period of time between sunrise and sunset, daytime

Declension

Derived terms

Swedish - References

• dag in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Turkmen - Etymology

From Old Turkic tag, from Proto-Turkic *tāg, *dāg (“mountain”).

Turkmen - Noun

dag (definite accusative dagy, plural daglar)

1. mountain

Declension

White Hmong - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪a̤˧˩/

White Hmong - Verb

dag

1. deceive
2. cheat
3. lie (tell untruth(s))

White Hmong - References

• Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)

Rhyme