different between rag vs vag

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English ragge, from Old English ragg (suggested by derivative raggi? (“shaggy; bristly; ragged”)), from Old Norse r?gg (“tuft; shagginess”). Cognate with Swedish ragg. Related to rug.

Noun

rag (plural rags)

1. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
2. A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
3. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
4. A ragged edge in metalworking.
5. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
6. (singular or plural, slang) Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
7. (slang, derogatory) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.

   Synonym: fish wrap
8. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.

   I have ace-four on my hand. In other words, I have ace-rag.

9. (slang, theater) A curtain of various kinds.
10. (dated) A person suffering from exhaustion or lack of energy.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)

1. (transitive) To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
2. (intransitive) To become tattered.

Etymology 2

Unknown origin; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.

Noun

rag (plural rags)

1. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
   • 2003, Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, page 1:

     the three walls around the garden, each one of thirty-three feet, were built out of three layers of stone — pebble stone, flint and rag stone.

Derived terms

• coral rag
• Kentish rag
• ragwork

Verb

rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)

1. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
2. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain.

Verb

rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)

1. To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
2. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
3. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.

Derived terms

• bullirag
• rag the puck
• rag on

Translations

Noun

rag (plural rags)

1. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
2. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.

Derived terms

• rag day
• rag week

Etymology 4

Perhaps from ragged. Compare later ragtime.

Noun

rag (plural rags)

1. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands. [19th c.]
2. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music. [from 19th c.]

Translations

Verb

rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)

1. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
2. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.
3. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.

References

Anagrams

• ARG, Arg., GAR, Gra, RGA, arg, gar

Breton

Preposition

rag

1. before

Dutch

Etymology 1

Unknown, only found to related to West Frisian reach, though possibly more distantly to Old Saxon raginna (“rough hair”), Old English ragu (“moss”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?x/

Noun

rag n (plural raggen, diminutive ragje n)

1. spider silk

Synonyms

• spinrag

Derived terms

• ragfijn

Etymology 2

From English rag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??/

Noun

rag n (plural rags, diminutive ragje n)

1. A piece of ragtime music.

German

Verb

rag

1. singular imperative of ragen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of ragen

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from ragad. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r??]
• Hyphenation: rag
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

rag (plural ragok)

1. (grammar) inflectional suffix/affix, termination, ending (for nominals, mostly case endings; for verbs and postpositions, personal suffixes; almost exclusively at the very end of a word in Hungarian)

   Hypernym: toldalék

   Coordinate terms: képz?, jel

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

Further reading

• (suffix): rag in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• ([regional] a kind of beam or a part of the roof): rag in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

North Frisian

Noun

rag m (plural rager)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) (anatomy) back

Scottish Gaelic

Adjective

rag

1. stiff, rigid, inflexible
2. stubborn, obstinate

Derived terms

• rag-mhuinealach

Somali

Noun

rag ?

1. man

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?a?k?/
• Tone numbers: rag⁸
• Hyphenation: rag

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *C?.ra?k? (“root”). Cognate with Thai ??? (râak), Northern Thai ????, Khün ????, Lao ??? (h?k), Lü ??? (haak), Tai Dam ???, Shan ????? (h?ak), Ahom ???????????? (rak), Nong Zhuang laeg, Zuojiang Zhuang lag, Saek ????.

Noun

rag (old orthography rag)

1. root.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *C?.la?k? (“to pull; to drag”). Cognate with Thai ??? (lâak), Lao ??? (l?k), Shan ????? (l?ak), Ahom ???????????? (lak), Nong Zhuang laeg, Zuojiang Zhuang lag.

Verb

rag (old orthography rag)

1. to drag; to pull; to haul.

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of vagina.

Alternative forms

• vadge, vaj

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /væd?/
• Rhymes: -æd?

Noun

vag (plural not attested)

1. (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)

1. (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.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /væ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

vag (plural vags)

1. (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)

1. (Britain, archaic, dialect, Devon) To drag; to trail on the ground.
2. (Britain, archaic, dialect, Devon) To bend; to give; to yield.
3. (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

1. vague

Inflection

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) va'g

Etymology

Related to Finnish vako.

Noun

vag

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. vague

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From French vague, from Latin vagus (unsteady, wandering).

Adjective

vag (comparative vagare, superlative vagast)

1. vague

   själens subtilaste infall, dess vagaste föreställningar, dess flyktigaste drömmar

   the soul's most subtle inventions, its vaguest conceptions, its most volatile dreams

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)

1. emptiness

Declension