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sag¹

  • /sæɡ/ Australia, US, UK
  • /saɡ/ British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
  • /sæːɡ/ Australia
  • /sɛɡ/ New Zealand
  • /seɪ̯ɡ/

Rhymes with -æɡ

Where it comes from

From earlier sag, sagg, sack, from Middle English saggen, probably from Middle Low German sacken (“to sink, drift”), ultimately of North Germanic/Scandinavian/Old Norse origin, akin to Old Norse søkkva (“to sink”), a denasalized derivative of Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną (“to cause to sink”), related to Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną (“to sink”).

Cognate with Scots seg (“to sink”), Danish sakke (“to lag behind”), Swedish sacka (“to lag”), Icelandic sakka (“to sink”), Faroese søkka (“to sink, drop down, descend, set”), Dutch zakken (“to fall, drop, sink”), German Low German sacken (“to sink”), and German sacken (“to sink”) (from Low German).

Compare also Norwegian Nynorsk sagga (“to walk or move heavily and slowly”).

noun sags · seg · segg · sack

  1. countable, uncountable The state of sinking or bending; a droop.
  2. countable, uncountable A depression or dip in anything.
  3. countable, uncountable A place where the surface of the earth, a mountain range, a ridge, etc., sinks or droops. a mass of igneous rock […] shown as a semicircular area of shonkinite exposed in the west wall of the sag. From the valley below, it appears as a dark cliff, perhaps 100 feet in height and a few hundred yards long.
  4. countable, uncountable The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points.
  5. countable, uncountable The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens.
  6. countable, uncountable A region or spot where the skin has lost some of its elasticity and droops or hangs down.
  7. countable, uncountable A person with sagging skin. She was bossy and proud, a dreadful sag of skin and bones, and she was a devilish hard worker.

verb sags · sagging · sagged · seg · segg

  1. To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane. A line or cable supported by its ends sags, even if it is tightly drawn.
  2. broadly To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position. A building may sag one way or another.
  3. figuratively To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced. The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear, / Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.
  4. intransitive To fail to sustain interest; to be boring. The movie really sags after the chase scene.
  5. To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily. When Handy had gone, Bert Barricue sagged in, unwashed, unshaven. He sat down stiffly.
  6. transitive To cause to bend or give way; to load.
  7. informal, transitive To wear one's trousers, shorts, etc., so that their top is well below the waist. He sags his pants real low.
  8. informal, intransitive, usually To be worn so that the top is well below the waist. His pants were sagging low.
  9. Canada, informal To pull down someone else's pants as a prank.

sag²

noun sags

  1. alternative, uncountable, usually Alternative form of saag.saag The dal tarka (£5) is made from whole yellow split peas, while sag aloo (£5) brings potatoes in a rich and oily spinach puree.

SAG³

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of Screen Actors Guild.Screen Actors Guild

phrase

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Saint Anthony guide.Saint Anthony guide

noun SAGs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of straight-acting gay.straight-acting gay

Sag⁴

noun Sags

  1. abbreviation, clipping, informal Clipping of Sagittarius.Sagittarius For example, a Sag girl living on a farm could pick and chop cotton better than her brothers.

proper noun

  1. Alternative letter-case form of SAG (“Screen Actors Guild”).SAG The use of AI in the production of film and television – either to write scripts, generate actors’ likenesses, or cut corners in paying creative work, has been a major point of contention in negotiations between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and Sag and the Writers

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