Jag

/d͡ʒæɡ/ · noun

Meaning

A sharp projection..

Definitions by Sense

1. A sharp projection.
2. A part broken off; a fragment.
3. A flap, a tear in a clothing
4. (botany) A cleft or division.
5. (Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.
6. (Western Pennsylvania, dialectal) A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
7. (Western Pennsylvania, dialectal, derogatory) Ellipsis of jagoff (“an irritating, inept, or repugnant person”).
8. To cut unevenly.

Example Sentences

garments thus beset with long jagges and pursles

The thick black cloud was cleft, and still / The Moon was at its side; / Like waters shot from some high crag, / The lightning fell with never a jag, / A river steep and wide.

The especial beauty of London is the Thames, and the Thames is so wonderful because the mist is always changing its shapes and colours, always making its light mysterious, and building palaces of cloud out of mere Parliament Houses with their jags and turrets.

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.

some Jaggs will ſuffice to be recited

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.

On the Friday […] we had been playing tennis and in some way Geoffrey jagged a finger nail so that it kept catching in his things whenever he touched it.

Consider, the pessimists argue, the vast number of plays which it is only possible to sit through with the assistance of what Ella Wheeler Wilcox would call a mild jag.

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Word Forms

• jags
• jagging
• jagged

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