jag

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 jăg

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sharp projection.
    — garments thus beset with long jagges and pursles
  2. Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
  3. A part broken off; a fragment.
    — some Jaggs will ſuffice to be recited
  4. A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
    — 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.
  5. A flap, a tear in a clothing
  6. A fit, spell, outburst.
    — Of course she did not lose her sense of humor (not necessarily to be confused with her laughing fits, which are crying jags turned inside out according to the shrinks).
  7. A cleft or division.
  8. A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
  9. A medical injection, a jab. Scotland
  10. A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags. Scotland,archaic
  11. A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush). Pennsylvania,Western,dialectal
  12. Ellipsis of jagoff (“an irritating, inept, or repugnant person”). Pennsylvania,Western,abbreviation,alt-of,derogatory
动词 v.
  1. To cut unevenly.
    — 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.
  2. To pierce with a sharp object. Northern-England,Pennsylvania,Scotland,Western
  3. To tease. Pennsylvania,Western

词形变化

jags plural jags present,singular,third-person jagging participle,present jagged participle,past jagged past jags plural

词汇关系

衍生词
jag bolt jagged jagger jagless jag off get a jag on have a jag on
相关词
Jag

词源

词源 1
The noun is from late Middle English jagge, from Old English giagga, giacga. The ultimate origin could be sound-symbolic of sudden movement, compare with jam, rag and Middle English dag, of which jag may be a palatalised variant.
The verb is from jaggen, from Old English giacgian.
词源 2
Circa 1597; originally "load of broom or furze", variant of British English dialectal chag (“tree branch; branch of broom or furze”), from Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze”), from Proto-Germanic *kagô (compare dialectal German Kag (“stump, cabbage, stalk”), Swedish dialect kage (“stumps”), Norwegian dialect kage (“low bush”), of unknown origin.
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