jag

See also: Jag and JAG

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: jăg, IPA^(key): /d͡ʒæɡ/
• Rhymes: -æɡ

Etymology 1

The noun is from late (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English jagge, the verb is from jaggen.

Noun

jag (plural jags)

1. A sharp projection.
   • (Can we date this quote by Holland and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     garments thus beset with long jags

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, lines 323-7, [1]

     The thick black cloud was cleft, and still / The Moon was at its side; / Like waters shot from some high crag, / The lightning fell with never a jag, / A river steep and wide.

   • 1909, Arthur Symons, London: A Book of Aspects, self-published, p. 3, [2]

     The especial beauty of London is the Thames, and the Thames is so wonderful because the mist is always changing its shapes and colours, always making its light mysterious, and building palaces of cloud out of mere Parliament Houses with their jags and turrets.

   • 1956, C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, Collins, 1998, Chapter 16,

     Even if you hadn’t been drowned, you would have been smashed to pieces by the terrible weight of water against the countless jags of rock.

2. A part broken off; a fragment.

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   • 1852, Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" section 52 in Leaves of Grass, New York: Modern Library, 1921, p. 77, [3]

     I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, / I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.

3. (botany) A cleft or division.
4. (Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.

Translations

A sharp projection

• Bulgarian: зъбец (bg) m (zǎbec)
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A part broken off

• Bulgarian: фрагмент (bg) m (fragment)
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Derived terms

• jagged
• jagger

Verb

jag (third-person singular simple present jags, present participle jagging, simple past and past participle jagged)

1. To cut unevenly.
2. (Pittsburgh) To tease.

Translations

To cut unevenly

• Bulgarian: съдирам (bg) (sǎdiram)
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Etymology 2

Circa 1597; originally "load of broom or furze", variant of British English dialectal chag (“tree branch; branch of broom or furze”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *kagô (compare dialectal German Kag (“stump, cabbage, stalk”), Swedish dialect kage (“stumps”), Norwegian dialect kage (“low bush”), of unknown origin.

Noun

jag (plural jags)

1. Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
2. A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, page 88:

     ‘People who spend their money for second-hand sex jags are as nervous as dowagers who can't find the rest-room.’

3. A fit, spell, outburst.
   • 1985, Peter De Vries, The Prick of Noon, Penguin, Chapter 9, p. 165,

     Of course she did not lose her sense of humor (not necessarily to be confused with her laughing fits, which are crying jags turned inside out according to the shrinks).

   • 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Simon & Schuster, 2007, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 396, [4]

     Miles had a cold, he always had a cold, it went unnoticed, went without saying, he had coughing jags and slightly woozy eyes, completely unremarked by people who knew him […]

4. A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
5. (Scotland, archaic) A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.

Derived terms

• get a jag on
• have a jag on

Translations

binge or overindulgence

• Bulgarian: запой (bg) m (zapoj)
• Georgian: შვერილი (šverili), ქონგური (konguri)
• Italian: orgia (it) f, bisboccia (it) f, baldoria (it) f, sregolatezza (it) f
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• Russian: кутёж (ru) (kutjóž)

one-horse cart load

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Translations to be checked

• German: Zahn (de) m, Zacke (de) f, Kerbe (de) f, Auszackung f, Riss (de) m
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See also

• Jag
• JAG

Anagrams

• AGJ, JGA

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch jacht.

Noun

jag (plural jagte)

1. hunt, pursuit
2. yacht

Related terms

• jaag

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Dalmatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

jag

1. needle

References

• Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaːɡ/, [jæjˀ]

Noun

jag n (singular definite jaget, plural indefinite jag)

1. hurry, rush
2. twinge, (a sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side)

Inflection

Declension of jag

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	jag	jaget	jag	jagene
genitive	jags	jagets	jags	jagenes

Verb

jag

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of jage

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German

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aːk

Verb

jag

1. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of jagen.
2. (colloquial) (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of jagen.

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Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) ja'g

Etymology

From .

Noun

jag

1. part

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

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Verb

jag

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of jage

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

jag

1. imperative of jaga

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Romani

Etymology

From Sanskrit अग्नि (agní, “fire”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hagnís, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis. Cognate with Hindi आग (āg), Nepali आगो (āgo), Gujarati આગ (āga), and Punjabi ਅੱਗ (agga).

Noun

jag f (plural jaga)

1. fire

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Swedish

Alternative forms

Dialects

• je (Jamska)
• ji (Kalixmål)
• jö (Lulemål)
• i (Pitemål)

Etymology

From Old Swedish iak, jæk, from Old Norse jak (compare Old West Norse ek), from Proto-Norse ᛖᚲ (ek), from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑː(ɡ)/

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Pronoun

jag

1. I

   Jag läser en bok.

   I'm reading a book.

   Bara du och jag.

   Just you and me.

Declension

Swedish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					common	neuter	plural
singular	first	—	jag	mig, mej3	min	mitt	mina
	second	—	du	dig, dej3	din	ditt	dina
	third	masculine (person)	han	honom, han2, en5	hans
		feminine (person)	hon	henne, na5	hennes
		gender-neutral (person)1	hen	hen, henom7	hens
		common (noun)	den	den	dess
		neuter (noun)	det	det	dess
		indefinite	man or en4	en	ens
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina
plural	first	—	vi	oss	vår, våran2	vårt, vårat2	våra
	second	—	ni	er	er, eran2, ers6	ert, erat2	era
		archaic	I	eder	eder, eders6	edert	edra
	third	—	de, dom3	dem, dom3	deras
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina

¹Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, and has gained widespread acceptance today.

²Informal

³Colloquial pronunciation spelling.

⁴Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.

⁵Informal, somewhat dialectal

⁶Formal address

⁷Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

Noun

jag n

1. (psychology) I, self

Declension

Declension of jag
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	jag	jaget	—	—
Genitive	jags	jagets	—	—

Related terms

• jagkänsla
• överjag

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Yabong

Noun

jag

1. water

Further reading

• J. Bullock, R. Gray, H. Paris, D. Pfantz, D. Richardson, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Yabong, Migum, Nekgini, and Neko (2016)