knag

English

Alternative forms

• knage
• knagge
• knagg

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æɡ

Etymology 1

From Middle English knagge. Cognate with German Low German Knagge, Danish knage, Swedish knagg. Related to knarr and knur.

Noun

knag (plural knags)

1. A short spur or stiff projection from the trunk or branch of a tree, such as the stunted dead branch of a fir
2. A peg or hook for hanging something on
3. (obsolete) One of the points of a stag's horn or a tine
4. A knot in a piece of wood or the base of a branch
5. A pointed rock or crag
6. (Scotland) A small cask or barrel; a keg or noggin
7. (Scotland, obsolete) The woodpecker

Etymology 2

From Middle English knaggen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

knag (third-person singular simple present knags, present participle knagging, simple past and past participle knagged)

1. To hang something on a peg

Anagrams

• Kang, gank, kang

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːˀ

Noun

knag n (singular definite knaget, plural indefinite knag)

1. creak

Inflection

Declension of knag

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	knag	knaget	knag	knagene
genitive	knags	knagets	knags	knagenes

Synonyms

• (rare) knagen

Noun

knag c (singular definite knagen, plural indefinite knage)

1. dab, dab hand

Inflection

Declension of knag

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	knag	knagen	knage	knagene
genitive	knags	knagens	knages	knagenes

Verb

knag

1. imperative of knage

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Low German Knagge.

Pronunciation

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) IPA^(key): /ˈknak/

Noun

knag m inan

1. (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) knag (wooden peg on a wall for hanging)

Further reading

• Antoni Krasnowolski (1879) “knag”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 304