1. [Austral, NZ, informal] A person with poor hygiene and low standards of tidiness
   "The dag's apartment was a mess of dirty dishes and unwashed clothes";
   - slob [Brit, informal], sloven, pig [informal], slovenly person, schlump [N. Amer, informal], shlump [N. Amer, informal]
    
2. [Austral, NZ, informal] A person with an unusual or odd personality
   "they're a bunch of dags, but quite nice really";
   - eccentric, flake [N. Amer, informal], oddball [informal], geek [informal]
    
3. [US, Austral, informal] A witty amusing person who makes jokes
   "The office dag kept everyone laughing with his clever quips";
   - wag, wit, card
    
4. [Austral, NZ] A dangling lock of sheep's wool matted with dung
   "The sheep's hindquarters were covered in dags, making shearing difficult";
   - daglock [Austral, NZ]
    
5. [archaic] A flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
   "The dress featured ornate dags along the hemline";
   - jag
    
6. [archaic] 10 grams
   "The recipe called for a dag of yeast";
   - dekagram [N. Amer], decagram, jag

1. Remove dags from sheep
   "The farmer spent the morning dagging the flock before shearing"

Derived forms: dags, dagging, dagged

Type of: actor, doer, flap, humorist, metric weight unit, vulgarian, weight unit, worker

Part of: garment, hectogram, hectogramme, hg

Encyclopedia: Dag