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Word entry · 3 letters

jag

Best crossword clue

"Ragged point"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /d͡ʒæɡ/Part of speech noun, verbSorted agjStarts with JEnds with G1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a bout of drinking or drug taking

Word origin

The noun is from late Middle English jagge, from Old English giagga, giacga. The ultimate origin could be sound-symbolic of sudden movement, compare with jam, rag and Middle English dag, of which jag may be a palatalised variant.

Used in a sentence

  • garments thus beset with long jagges and pursles
  • The thick black cloud was cleft, and still / The Moon was at its side; / Like waters shot from some high crag, / The lightning fell with never a jag, / A river steep and wide.
  • Even if you hadn’t been drowned, you would have been smashed to pieces by the terrible weight of water against the countless jags of rock.

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