skag

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Noun

skag (countable and uncountable, plural skags)

1. (nautical) Alternative form of skeg
2. (slang) Alternative spelling of scag heroin.
3. (slang) an unattractive woman [from 1920s]

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Westrobothnian

Etymology

From , skag n (“a bare and open or protruding place”). Hence the name of the Danish cape Skagen. Compare North Frisian skage (“die äusserste gränze, so weit das feld ausläuft”).

Noun

1. a bare and open or protruding place
2. headland
3. projection from the roof, over the vestibule porch