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dag
noun- a matted lock of wool and excrement on a sheep’s behind AUSTRALIA, 1891
From British dialect. - Get a load of me, will you? Dags on every inch of me hide; drinking me own sweat; swallowing dirt with every breath I breathe; shearing sheeps that should have been dog’s meat years ago[.] — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 147, 1965
- [H]e’s a dag. — Sumner Locke Elliott, Rusty Bugles, p. 52, 1968
- He was a bit of a dag. — Douglas Lockwood, My Old Mates, p. 118, 1979
- a person who is eccentric and humorous; a real character; a wag AUSTRALIA, 1875
Formerly common, now obsolete (but see sense 3). Some have suggested that the origin of this term lies in the British dialect term “a feat set as a dare”, but the examples given in the English Dialect Dictionary make these feats more skilful than amusing or eccentric. - Let’s shoot through [go] before this dag yells for the blues [police]. — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 27, 1977
- — The Traveller’s Tool, p. 138, 1985
- But some dag said that the plastic Prime Minister once had 73 per cent support[.] — Frank Hardy, Hardy’s People, p. 119, 1986
- — David McGill, A Dictionary of Kiwi Slang, p. 34, 1988
- a person who is dull and conservative; a person who has no sense of fashion; an uncool or unhip person AUSTRALIA, 1966
Now the commonest meaning. It is widely believed that it derives from sense 1, but this is not the case. Probably partially from sense 2 and partially a backformation from DAGGYGEEKNERD - Hang on a sec you silly dag while I square off this four-be-two. — The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, 1972
- Don’t be a dag. Control the impulse to call. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 15, 1987
- Next night I went to the local dive for deviants. It was downstairs with dags for two bucks. And upstairs with phonies, for four. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 87, 1987
- Why don’t you dump him Mouche? He’s a total dag. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 96, 1987
- Promise him that your Dag Days are over. No longer will you wear blue with black or sprout maverick patches of armpit hair. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 208, 1987
- The Dag’s clothes on the other hand look like they were made in Sorrow rather than in Anger, and simply serve to cover his body–a pale, flabby embarrassment that should be kept covered at all costs. — Ignatius Jones, True Hip, p. 32, 1990
- Like, right, you think I’m a dag, don’t you? — Christos Tsiolkas, Loaded, p. 39, 1995
- a daring act NEW ZEALAND
Originally and literally “a clump of faecal matter stuck on a sheep’s tail”. - — Louis S. Leland, A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary, p. 31, 1984
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