Jag

Pronunciation

• enPR: jăg, IPA: /d͡ʒæɡ/
• Rhymes: -æɡ

The noun is from late Middle English jagge, the verb is from jaggen.

Full definition of jag

Noun

1. A sharp projection.
• Hollandgarments thus beset with long jags
2. A part broken off; a fragment.
3. (botany) A cleft or division.
4. (Scotland) A medical injection.

Derived terms

• jagged

Verb

1. To cut unevenly.
2. (Pittsburgh) To tease.

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

1. A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
• 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 88:‘People who spend their money for second-hand sex jags are as nervous as dowagers who can't find the rest-room.’
2. a one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.

Anagrams

• JGA