cag
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English kag, of North Germanic origin, related to Old Norse kaggi, Swedish kagge.
Noun[edit]
cag (plural cags)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A keg.
Etymology 2[edit]
Shortening.
Noun[edit]
cag (plural cags)
Etymology 3[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
cag (plural cags)
- (dialectal) A projecting piece left on a tree or shrub when a branch is severed; knob; stump.
- (dialectal) The stump of a broken tooth; a tooth standing alone.
- (dialectal) An angular tear or rent in a piece of cloth.
Etymology 4[edit]
Verb[edit]
cag (third-person singular simple present cags, present participle cagging, simple past and past participle cagged)
- (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 […]
- 1824, Pierce Egan, Boxiana; Or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism (page 344)
References[edit]
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
References[edit]
- ^ Liberman, A. (2009). Word Origins And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone. United States: Oxford University Press, p. 179
Anagrams[edit]
Mapudungun[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- chang (Unified Alphabet)
Noun[edit]
cag (Raguileo spelling)
References[edit]
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Somali[edit]
Noun[edit]
cag ?
White Hmong[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cag
- root.
References[edit]
Zhuang[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /ɕaːk˧/
- Tone numbers: cag8
- Hyphenation: cag
Noun[edit]
cag (Sawndip forms 𰫦 or 䋏 or 䌇 or ⿰糹长, 1957–1982 spelling cag)
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