scag
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Origin unknown.[1][2] Compare scat (“heroin; whiskey”), slag (“waste; a prostitute”), skank (“a disreputable woman”).
Pronunciation
Noun
scag (countable and uncountable, plural scags)
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- (slang, countable, derogatory, originally African-American Vernacular) A woman of loose morals.
- (slang, countable, dated, US) A cigarette.
- 1915, “The Doomsday Butt”, in The Cornhusker, page 458:
- “Then have a skag,” said I. / “’Twill make it seem like happier times, / You liked this brand, I understand.”
- 1996, Paul Bunker and Keith Barlow, Bunker's War: The World War II Diary of Paul D. Bunker, page 134:
- Awoke when our florescent lights came on and went outside to smoke a few scags before breakfast.
Verb
scag (third-person singular simple present scags, present participle scagging, simple past and past participle scagged)
- (computing) To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the filesystem or by causing media damage.
- "That last power hit scagged the system disk."
References
- ^ “scag, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “scag”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
Irish
Etymology
From Old Norse [Term?].
Verb
scag (present analytic scagann, future analytic scagfaidh, verbal noun scagadh, past participle scagtha)
Conjugation
conjugation of scag (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
Derived terms
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scacaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “scag”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “scag”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “scag”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
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