cagmag

English

Alternative forms

• kegmeg

Etymology

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Noun

cagmag (countable and uncountable, plural cagmags)

1. (UK, dialect) A tough old goose.
2. (UK, dialect, by extension, uncountable) Coarse, bad food of any kind.
   • 1837, William Rae Wilson, Notes Abroad and Rhapsodies at Home:

     when a man pays for the price of a good wholesome dinner, and finds that all the dishes are filled with cagmag, it is no particular satisfaction to him to know that he is not forced to touch a second morsel

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
• “cagmag”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.