Jag
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jag¹
- /d͡ʒæɡ/
Rhymes with -æɡ
Where it comes from
The noun is from late Middle English jagge, from Old English giagga, giacga. The ultimate origin could be sound-symbolic of sudden movement, compare with jam, rag and Middle English dag, of which jag may be a palatalised variant.
The verb is from jaggen, from Old English giacgian.
noun jags
- A sharp projection. garments thus beset with long jagges and pursles
- A part broken off; a fragment. some Jaggs will ſuffice to be recited
- A flap, a tear in a clothing
- A cleft or division.
- A medical injection, a jab.
- A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
- Ellipsis of jagoff (“an irritating, inept, or repugnant person”).jagoff
verb jags · jagging · jagged
- To cut unevenly. On the Friday […] we had been playing tennis and in some way Geoffrey jagged a finger nail so that it kept catching in his things whenever he touched it.
- To pierce with a sharp object.
- To tease.
jag²
- /d͡ʒæɡ/
Rhymes with -æɡ
Where it comes from
Circa 1597; originally "load of broom or furze", variant of British English dialectal chag (“tree branch; branch of broom or furze”), from Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze”), from Proto-Germanic *kagô (compare dialectal German Kag (“stump, cabbage, stalk”), Swedish dialect kage (“stumps”), Norwegian dialect kage (“low bush”), of unknown origin.
noun jags
- Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
- A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree. Consider, the pessimists argue, the vast number of plays which it is only possible to sit through with the assistance of what Ella Wheeler Wilcox would call a mild jag.
- A fit, spell, outburst. 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).
- A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
- A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.
Jag³
Rhymes with -æɡ
Where it comes from
Shortening of Jaguar.
noun Jags
- A Jaguar car. "One of the ticket collectors at our local station," observed Mr. Fiennes, "has a Jag."
JAG⁴
noun JAGs
- Acronym of judge advocate general.judge advocate general Of the three JAGs who were dismissed, I know Lt. Gen. Charles Plummer and worked with him for more than three years.
