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stag
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)
- (countable) An adult male deer.
- (countable) A colt, or filly.
- (by extension, countable, obsolete) A romping girl; a tomboy.
- (countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
- (countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
- (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.
- (countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
- (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
- (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.
- (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.
- 2007, Eric R. Eaton, Kenn Kaufman, Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America (page 132)
- (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.
- 2000, Richard Tomlinson, The big breach: from top secret to maximum security (page 31)
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)
- (intransitive, Britain) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
- (transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
- Synonym: shadow
Translations
Adverb
stag (not comparable)
- 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
- Alternative form of stagge
Swedish
Noun
stag ?
- (nautical) A stay.
- An appliance with a function similar to a nautical stay.
Anagrams
- gast, sagt, tags
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sthg
English
Alternative forms
- sth
- smth
Pronoun
sthg
- (uncommon) Abbreviation of something.
Usage notes
- Used in dictionary usage notes; as in, "Sthg affected sb."
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