stag
See also: StAG
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editstag (countable and uncountable, plural stags)
- (countable) An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
- (countable, chiefly Scotland) A young horse (colt or filly).
- (British) A male turkey: a turkeycock.
- (by extension, countable, obsolete) A romping girl; a tomboy.
- (countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
- (countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
- (countable, finance) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
- (countable, usually attributive) An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
- a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar
- (countable) A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
- Synonyms: (US) bachelor party, (UK) stag do, stag party, stag lunch
- Coordinate terms: bachelorette party, hen party
- The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.
- (countable, slang) An informer.
- 1838, [Joseph Holt], edited by T. Crofton Croker, Memoirs of Joseph Holt, General of the Irish Rebels, in 1798, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, page 52:
- We had two disturbers of the harmony of the ship; I mean two stags or informers, one named Robert Wilson, the other John Hewit, from the north of Ireland.
- (uncountable, UK, military, slang) Guard duty.
- 2000, Richard Tomlinson, The big breach: from top secret to maximum security, page 31:
- Between shifts on stag or manning the radio, we grabbed a few hours sleep.
- 2012, Max Benitz, Six Months Without Sundays: The Scots Guards in Afghanistan:
- Three days were spent on standby or patrols and a fourth day on guard, with at least eight hours on stag.
- (countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
- 2007, Eric R. Eaton, Kenn Kaufman, Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America, page 132:
- Members of the genus Pasimachus […] can be confused with stag beetles […] but stags have elbowed antennae.
- (countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
Hyponyms
edit- (male red deer): royal stag, imperial stag, monarch
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editadult male deer
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colt or filly
romping girl
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castrated bull
irregular dealer in stocks
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Eurasian wren
social event for a groom — see bachelor party
Verb
editstag (third-person singular simple present stags, present participle stagging, simple past and past participle stagged)
- (intransitive, British) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
- (transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
- Synonym: shadow
Translations
editact as an irregular dealer in stocks
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Adverb
editstag (not comparable)
- Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.
- My brother went stag to prom because he couldn't find a date.
Translations
editof a man, attending a formal social function without a date
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References
edit- (to watch): John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873)
Further reading
edit- “stag”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “stag n.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editNoun
editstag
- Alternative form of stagge
Old English
editPronunciation
editVerb
editstāg
Swedish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Swedish stag, from Old Norse stag, from Proto-Germanic *stagą.
Noun
editstag n
Declension
editDeclension of stag | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | stag | staget | stag | stagen |
Genitive | stags | stagets | stags | stagens |
References
edit- stag in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- stag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- stag in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- stag in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)
- stag in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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