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gag
English
Etymology
The verb is from 15th-century Middle English gaggen, Early Modern English gagge, possibly imitative or perhaps related to or influenced by Old Norse gag-háls ("with head thrown backwards"; > Norwegian dialectal gaga (“bent backwards”)). The intransitive sense "to retch" is from 1707.
The noun is from the 16th century, figurative use (for "repression of speech") from the 1620s. The secondary meaning "(practical) joke" is from 1863, of unclear origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
gag (plural gags)
- A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.
- (law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
- A joke or other mischievous prank.
- (film) a device or trick used to create a practical effect; a gimmick
- A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
- (archaic) A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.
- Mycteroperca microlepis, a species of grouper.
- Synonym: gag grouper
Synonyms
- (legal): gag order
- (joke): See also Thesaurus:joke
Derived terms
- gagless
- sight gag
Descendants
- ? French: gag
- ? Italian: gag
- ? Spanish: gag
Translations
Verb
gag (third-person singular simple present gags, present participle gagging, simple past and past participle gagged)
- (intransitive) To experience the vomiting reflex.
- (transitive) To cause to heave with nausea.
- 2008, Stephen King, "A Very Tight Place"
- His empty stomach was suddenly full of butterflies, and for the first time since arriving here at scenic Durkin Grove Village, he felt an urge to gag himself. He would be able to think more clearly about this if he just stuck his fingers down his throat […]
- 2008, Stephen King, "A Very Tight Place"
- (transitive) To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- They said no word to the landlord, they drank his ale instead,
- But they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed;
- Two of them knelt at her casement, with muskets at their side!
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- (transitive) To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
- 1917, Francis Gregor (translator), De Laudibus Legum Angliae, Sir John Fortescue, written 1468–1471, first published 1543.
- […] some have their mouths gagged to such a wideness, for a long time, whereat such quantities of water are poured in, that their bellies swell to a prodigious degree […]
- 1917, Francis Gregor (translator), De Laudibus Legum Angliae, Sir John Fortescue, written 1468–1471, first published 1543.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
- When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.
- c. 1840, Thomas Macaulay, Essay on Machiavelli
- The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked.
- (transitive, intransitive) To choke; to retch.
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, slang) To deceive (someone); to con.
- 1777, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 79:
- I endeavoured what I could to soften off the affectation of her sudden change of Disposition; and I gagged the Gentleman with as much ease as my very little ease would allow me to assume.
- 1777, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 79:
Derived terms
- gag me with a spoon
Translations
Related terms
- blech
- retch
References
- gag in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Further reading
- gag at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- agg
French
Etymology
From English gag.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?/
Noun
gag m (plural gags)
- joke
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English gag.
Noun
gag m (invariable)
- gag, joke
- Synonyms: scherzo, freddura; see also Thesaurus:battuta
Occitan
Noun
gag m (plural gags)
- jay
Romanian
Etymology
From French gag.
Noun
gag n (plural gaguri)
- joke
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From English gag.
Noun
gag m (plural gags)
- gag (joke)
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /ka?k?/
- Tone numbers: gag8
- Hyphenation: gag
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From ??”)
Adverb
gag (Sawndip forms ? or ? or ?, old orthography gag)
- by oneself; alone
- Synonym: (dialectal) haek
- on one's own; by oneself; without permission
- Synonym: (dialectal) gujgag
- just; only
Derived terms
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From ?? ??”)
Verb
gag (old orthography gag)
- to eject; to cough up
- Synonym: (dialectal) gak
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vag
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of vagina.
Alternative forms
- vadge, vaj
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /væd?/
- Rhymes: -æd?
Noun
vag (plural not attested)
- (US slang, chiefly vulgar) vagina (or, informally, vulva)
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of vagrant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /væ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Verb
vag (third-person singular simple present vags, present participle vagging, simple past and past participle vagged)
- (transitive, slang) To arrest somebody as a vagrant.
- 2002, T. R. St. George, Clyde Strikes Back (page 250)
- But I seen on the TV it was colder'n a witch's tit here so I stayed. Stuck it out. Then I caught a freight and got vagged.
- 2002, T. R. St. George, Clyde Strikes Back (page 250)
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /væ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
vag (plural vags)
- (Britain, dated, dialect, Devon) turf used as fuel
Verb
vag (third-person singular simple present vags, present participle vagging, simple past and past participle vagged)
- (Britain, archaic, dialect, Devon) To drag; to trail on the ground.
- (Britain, archaic, dialect, Devon) To bend; to give; to yield.
- (Britain, dated, dialect, Devon) To flap; to blow in the wind.
References
- Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary?[5], volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 335
Anagrams
- AGV, AVG, Gav, VGA, avg.
Danish
Etymology
From French vague
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va??/, [væ??j], [væj?]
Adjective
vag
- vague
Inflection
Livonian
Alternative forms
- (Courland) va'g
Etymology
Related to Finnish vako.
Noun
vag
- furrow
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin vagus, via French vague
Adjective
vag (neuter singular vagt, definite singular and plural vage, comparative vagere, indefinite superlative vagest, definite superlative vageste)
- vague
References
- “vag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin vagus, via French vague
Adjective
vag (neuter singular vagt, definite singular and plural vage, comparative vagare, indefinite superlative vagast, definite superlative vagaste)
- vague
References
- “vag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French vague, Latin vagus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va?/
Adjective
vag m or n (feminine singular vag?, plural vagi)
- vague
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
From French vague, from Latin vagus (unsteady, wandering).
Adjective
vag (comparative vagare, superlative vagast)
- vague
- själens subtilaste infall, dess vagaste föreställningar, dess flyktigaste drömmar
- the soul's most subtle inventions, its vaguest conceptions, its most volatile dreams
- själens subtilaste infall, dess vagaste föreställningar, dess flyktigaste drömmar
Declension
Synonyms
- diffus
- otydlig
Related terms
- vackla
- vagabond
- vagant
- vaghet
References
- vag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- vag in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
Anagrams
- gav
Volapük
Noun
vag (nominative plural vags)
- emptiness
Declension
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