different between stag vs skag

English

Alternative forms

• steg (dialectal), staig (Scotland), stagg, stagge (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *steg?-, *steng?- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

stag (countable and uncountable, plural stags)

1. (countable) An adult male deer.
2. (countable) A colt, or filly.
3. (by extension, countable, obsolete) A romping girl; a tomboy.
4. (countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
5. (countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
6. (countable, finance) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
7. (countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
8. (countable, usually attributive) An unmarried male, a bachelor; a male not accompanying a female at a social event.

   a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar

9. (countable) A social event for males held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom, sometimes a fund-raiser.

   The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.

10. (countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
    • 2007, Eric R. Eaton, Kenn Kaufman, Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America (page 132)

      Members of the genus Pasimachus […] can be confused with stag beetles […] but stags have elbowed antennae.

11. (uncountable, Britain, military, slang) Guard duty.
    • 2000, Richard Tomlinson, The big breach: from top secret to maximum security (page 31)

      Between shifts on stag or manning the radio, we grabbed a few hours sleep.

Synonyms

• (male deer): buck, hart
• (social event): bachelor party (US), stag do (UK informal), stag party, stag lunch

Hyponyms

• (male red deer): royal stag, imperial stag, monarch

Derived terms

Related terms

• bull

Translations

Verb

stag (third-person singular simple present stags, present participle stagging, simple past and past participle stagged)

1. (intransitive, Britain) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
2. (transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.

   Synonym: shadow

Translations

Adverb

stag (not comparable)

1. Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.

   My brother went stag to prom because he couldn't find a date.

Translations

See also

• bachelorette party, hen party

Anagrams

• ATGs, GATS, GTAs, Gast, TAGs, gast, gats, tags

Middle English

Noun

stag

1. Alternative form of stagge

Swedish

Noun

stag ?

1. (nautical) A stay.
2. An appliance with a function similar to a nautical stay.

Anagrams

• gast, sagt, tags

English

Pronunciation

Noun

skag (countable and uncountable, plural skags)

1. (nautical) Alternative form of skeg
2. (slang) Alternative spelling of scag (“heroin”).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin
3. (slang) An unattractive woman. [from 1920s]

   Synonyms: skank; see also Thesaurus:ugly woman

References

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse skagi m (“far projecting promontory”), skag n (“a bare and open or protruding place”). Hence the name of the Danish cape Skagen. Compare North Frisian skage (“die äusserste gränze, so weit das feld ausläuft”).

Noun

skag n

1. a bare and open or protruding place
2. headland
3. projection from the roof, over the vestibule porch

Derived terms

• utskag