stag

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English[edit]

A stag (sense 1) of the species Cervus nippon

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /stæɡ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æɡ

Noun[edit]

stag (countable and uncountable, plural stags)

  2. (countable) An adult male deer, especially a red deer.
    Synonyms: buck, hart
  3. (countable, chiefly Scotland) A young horse (colt or filly).
  4. (by extension, countable, obsolete) A romping girl; a tomboy.
  5. (countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
  6. (countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
  7. (countable, finance) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
  8. (countable, usually attributive) An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
    a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar
  9. (countable) A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
    Synonyms: (US) bachelor party, (UK) stag do, stag party, stag lunch
    Coordinate terms: bachelorette party, hen party
    The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.
  10. (countable, slang) An informer.
    • 1838, [Joseph Holt], edited by T. Crofton Croker, Memoirs of Joseph Holt, General of the Irish Rebels, in 1798, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, page 52:
      We had two disturbers of the harmony of the ship; I mean two stags or informers, one named Robert Wilson, the other John Hewit, from the north of Ireland.
  11. (uncountable, UK, military, slang) Guard duty.
    • 2000, Richard Tomlinson, The big breach: from top secret to maximum security, page 31:
      Between shifts on stag or manning the radio, we grabbed a few hours sleep.
    • 2012, Max Benitz, Six Months Without Sundays: The Scots Guards in Afghanistan:
      Three days were spent on standby or patrols and a fourth day on guard, with at least eight hours on stag.
  12. (countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
    • 2007, Eric R. Eaton, Kenn Kaufman, Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America, page 132:
      Members of the genus Pasimachus […] can be confused with stag beetles […] but stags have elbowed antennae.
  13. (countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.

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Translations[edit]

social event for a groom — see bachelor party

Verb[edit]

stag (third-person singular simple present stags, present participle stagging, simple past and past participle stagged)

  1. (intransitive, British) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
  2. (transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
    Synonym: shadow

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Adverb[edit]

stag (not comparable)

  1. Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.
    My brother went stag to prom because he couldn't find a date.

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Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

stag

  1. Alternative form of stagge

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Swedish stag, from Old Norse stag, from Proto-Germanic *stagą.

Noun[edit]

stag n

  1. (nautical) a stay
  2. an appliance with a function similar to a nautical stay

Declension[edit]

Declension of stag 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative stag staget stag stagen
Genitive stags stagets stags stagens

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