[daɡ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a lock of wool matted with dung hanging from the hindquarters of a sheep

- an entertainingly eccentric person; a character
(e.g: your father must have been a bit of a dag)

- a staid or socially inept person


Phrases:
- rattle one's dags

Origin:
late Middle English (denoting a hanging pointed part of something): possibly related to tag. dag dates from the early 17th century; dag is a transferred use of English dialect meaning ‘a challenge’

[daɡ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- cut dags from (a sheep)
(e.g: we failed to have the ewes dagged)


Phrases:
- rattle one's dags

Origin:
late Middle English (denoting a hanging pointed part of something): possibly related to tag. dag dates from the early 17th century; dag is a transferred use of English dialect meaning ‘a challenge’