dag. An unfashionable person; a person lacking style or character; a socially awkward adolescent, a 'nerd'. These senses of dag derive from an earlier Australian sense of dag meaning 'a "character", someone eccentric but entertainingly so'.
Dag is an Australian and New Zealand slang term, also daggy (adjective). In Australia, it is often used as an affectionate insult for someone who is, or is perceived to be, unfashionable, lacking self-consciousness about their appearance and/or with poor social skills yet affable and amusing.
Dag has two meanings. When you hear someone say "he's such a dag" it means a quirky or funny person who is a bit of a character. For sheep farmers, dag also refers to matted wool hanging from the hindquarters of a sheep.
Dag forms when loose faeces sticks to the wool around the breech area. The consistency of sheep faeces varies from faecal pellets through to pasty or liquid diarrhoea (scouring). Pelleted faeces do not adhere to wool, and dag only accumulates when faeces are not in pelleted form.
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"Damn" is the most common definition for DAG on Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. DAG. Definition: Damn.
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Nowadays, daggy means uncool, conservative, lacking style and sophistication.
Britannica Dictionary definition of DANG. US, informal. — used as a more polite form of damn.
German Low German
From Middle Low German dach, dag, from Old Saxon dag, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).
dag in American English
(dæɡ) noun. Austral & NZ informal. an amusing, unusual person.
A drongo is a slow-witted or stupid person: a fool. This great Australian insult was originally an RAAF term for a raw recruit. It first appeared in the early 1940s, but its origin reaches back to the name of the racehorse Drongo, who ran around in the early 1920s.
Regional equivalent terms
Although the term "bogan" is understood across Australia and New Zealand, certain regions have their own slang terms for the same group of people. These terms include: "Bevan" or "Bev" in Queensland. "Booner" in Canberra.
Bogan: Australian slang for a person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour are unrefined or unsophisticated.
KIWI SLANG
Get familiar with some of the most common phrases before you travel: Chilly bin – the Kiwi word for Esky.
Adjective. (Australia) Silly; characteristic of a dill.
In Australian English a goog is an egg. It is an abbreviation of the British dialect word goggy 'a child's name for an egg', retained in Scotland as goggie. The phrase is a variation of an earlier British phrase in the same sense: full as a tick, recorded from the late 17th century.
(slang) A person from the suburbs who moves to a low-income urban area.
DàG, (de droite à gauche) right-to-left, Adj.
It's common for grandchildren to refer to their grandfathers with informal names. Grandpa is perhaps the most common variant of the word grandfather, but there are many others, including granddad, grandpop, grampa, gramps, grandpapa, and grandpappy.
dags. A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
The OED has the verb as Australian and New Zealand slang from 1955 (the quotations use blueing and blued), and a noun blue as Australian and New Zealand slang (an argument, quarrel, fight, brawl) from 1944 which they suggest may be from to turn the air blue, meaning to swear.
true blue. Very genuine, very loyal; expressing Australian values; Australian. This derives from a British English sense of true blue, recorded from the 17th century with the meaning 'faithful, staunch, unwavering in one's commitments or principles; extremely loyal'.
From Danish dag (“day”), from Old Norse dagr (“day”), from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn; warm, hot”) or *dʰeǵʰ- (“day”).
As an expletive, it's a nonsense word with no meaning, thus not offensive. Dang is nothing but a nonsense word with no meaning except that produced by its habitual use as an expletive. Thus is it not offensive.
dang (interj.)
1781 (in Sophia Lee's comedy "A Chapter of Accidents," which was acted first in 1780), a minced euphemism for damn.
Meaning of dang in English. used to express anger: Dang, I broke the glass!