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daggy
adjective- unfashionable; uncool AUSTRALIA, 1981
- We have the same daggy sense of humour. He’s great. It’s hard to tell whose is daggier, but we laugh at each other’s jokes, if nobody else does. — Weekend Australian, p. 10, 29 December 1984
- Come on, Deb, she couldn’t be interested in Paul–that daggy coat, and looking like he hasn’t eaten since he was twelve. — Jenny Pausacker, What are ya?, p. 41, 1987
- Charley and Bruce helped me renovate my wardrobe. Out with the daggy. In with what I think we can call restrained fashionable. — Terry Lane, Hectic, p. 98, 1993
- There was a puzzled look on his face, a look that said he was almost worried. He looked quite odd without his usual daggy grin. You got used to the mad, cheerful look on the Sarge’s face; it was a surprise to see it gone. — Tim Winton, Lockie Leonard, p. 14, 1997
- And even though the motorbike is really old-fashioned looking and the leather jacket is pretty daggy, there’s something about him. — Phillip Gwynne, Deadly Unna?, p. 82, 1998
- And anyhow Paula wasn’t going to look like Mary from the dairy by admitting she didn’t know what was going on in this sophisticated ambience of fashionably daggy movie people. — Peter Robb, Pig’s Blood and Other Fluids, p. 61, 1999
- Knitting is not daggy any more. — Who, p. 69, 27 July 2003
- (of clothes, personal appearance, etc.) dirty, filthy AUSTRALIA, 1967
- She’s married to a daggy artist in daggy jeans in a daggy Paddo flat with fifteen daggy dogs. — Arthur Chipper, The Aussie Swearer’s Guide, p. 37, 1972
- A month ago I see him in a pub in Tamworth, all daggy. Gone to pieces. — David Ireland, The Glass Canoe, p. 148, 1976
- Would I make love to an Aboriginal woman? No, it has never occurred to me. No. They’re too daggy. — Sandra Jobson, Blokes, p. 166, 1984
- Her shoes were scuffed and daggy and she had no stockings to wear[.] — Tim Winton, Cloudstreet, p. 180, 1991
- cheap or trashy looking in a sexually promiscuous way US
- — Anna Scotti and Paul Young, Buzzwords, p. 90, 1997
- (of sheep) having dags; (of wool) soiled with excrement AUSTRALIA, 1895
- Not like the western slopes where the bosses are out on the run from sun-up ter sun-down musterin’ and inoculatin’ and takin’ out and musterin’ and crutchin’ and pickin’ daggy wool and takin’ out again. — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 192, 1962
- Curly got two for one for daggy and maggoty sheep at the Shepparton Abbatoirs in 1936. — Frank Hardy, Hardy’s People, p. 150, 1986
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