noun
- Plural of dag; locks of wool matted with dung on a sheep's hindquarters.
- Plural of dag; a hanging end or shred of cloth or other material.
- Plural of dag; an amusing or eccentric person.
Usage: chiefly Australian and New Zealand
Usage: archaic or dialectal
Usage: informal, Australian and New Zealand slang
verb
- To remove dags from (a sheep).
Usage: chiefly Australian and New Zealand
Examples
- The farmer had to remove the dags from the sheep before shearing.
- He's a real dag—always making us laugh with his silly jokes.
- The old cloth hung in dags from the broken fence.
- They dags the flock every spring to keep them clean.
- She's one of the dags in our group; nobody's quite like her.