Jag
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /d͡ʒæɡ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Jag is a noun meaning A sharp projection.
Meaning
A sharp projection.
More Meanings
- A part broken off; a fragment.
- A flap, a tear in a clothing
- (botany) A cleft or division.
- (Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.
- (Western Pennsylvania, dialectal) A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
- (Western Pennsylvania, dialectal, derogatory) Ellipsis of jagoff (“an irritating, inept, or repugnant person”).
- To cut unevenly.
Example Sentences
some Jaggs will ſuffice to be recited
garments thus beset with long jagges and pursles
I depart as air .... I shake my white locks at the runway sun, / I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.
Even if you hadn’t been drowned, you would have been smashed to pieces by the terrible weight of water against the countless jags of rock.
Word Forms
- jags
- jagging
- jagged
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