Jag

English

Noun

Jag (plural Jags)

1. a sharp projection

Verb

Jag (third-person singular simple present jags, present participle jagging, simple past and past participle jagged)

1. to cut unevenly
2. (in Pittsburghese) to tease

Noun

Jag (plural Jags)

1. a binge or overindulgence, as in alcohol or drug use.
2. a one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.

Thesaurus

Vandyke, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, bear, bender, binge, blaze, booze, bout, buck, bum, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration, chop, cleft, cog, comb, compotation, convey, crag, crena, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, cut, debauch, depression, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, fang, ferry, gash, guzzle, hack, harrow, hump, incise, incision, indent, indentation, jab, jog, joggle, kerf, knurl, lug, machicolate, mill, nick, nock, notch, orgy, pack, peak, pecten, picot, pink, potation, projection, pub-crawl, puncture, rake, ratchet, sawtooth, scallop, scarify, score, scotch, serrate, slash, snag, snaggle, soak, souse, spire, spree, sprocket, spur, stab, steeple, symposium, tear, toot, tooth, tote, transport, wassail

Pronunciation

• enPR: jăg, IPA: /ʤæɡ/, SAMPA: /dZ{g/
• Rhymes: -æɡ

Etymology 1

Late Middle English jagge (noun); jaggen (verb).

Etymology 2

ca. 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 German dialect Kag 'stump, cabbage, stalk', Swedish dialect kage 'stumps', Norwegian dialect kage 'low bush'), of unknown origin.

Noun

• German: Zahn m., Zacke f., Kerbe f., Auszackung f., Riss m.

See also

• Jag
• JAG

Anagrams

• JGA

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Danish

Noun

Jag n. (singular definite Jaget, plural indefinite Jag)

1. hurry, rush
2. twinge, (a sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side)

Inflection

    Inflection of Jag

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	Jag	Jaget	Jag	Jagene
genitive	Jags	Jagets	Jags	Jagenes

Verb

Jag

1. imperative of jage

Pronunciation

• IPA: /laːɡ/, [læjˀ]

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Norwegian

Verb

jag

1. chase; imperative of jage

Pronunciation

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Romani

Noun

jag f. (plural jaga)

1. fire

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hagni-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ngʷni-. Cognate with Sanskrit अग्नि (agní).

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Swedish

Noun

Jag n.

1. (psychology) I, self

Declension

Declension of Jag

	uncountable		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	Jag	jaget
genitive	Jags	jagets

Related terms

• jagkänsla
• överjag

Pronoun

Jag

1. I

   Jag läser en bok.

   I read a book.

   Bara du och jag.

   Just you and me.

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ˈjɑːɡ/, or IPA: /ˈjɑː/