dag
noun/dæɡ/
/dæɡ/
(informal)- (Australian English, New Zealand English) a person who is strange or different in a way that is funny
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- (Australian English) a person who is not fashionable
- (Australian English, New Zealand English) a dirty piece of wool that hangs down from a sheep’s bottom
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a hanging pointed part of something, such as ornamental edging on the bottom of a garment): possibly related to the verb tag. Sense (3) dates from the early 17th cent.; sense (1) is a transferred use of English dialect meaning ‘a challenge’.
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