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▪ I. jagged, a.1|ˈdʒægɪd, dʒægd|
Also 6 geagged.
[f. jag n.1 and v.1 + -ed. Now usually disyllabic as adjective, monosyllabic as participle.]
1. Of a garment, etc.: Cut into jags by way of ornament; pinked, slashed.
c1440Promp. Parv. 255/2 Iaggyd, or daggyd, fractillosus. 1459Paston Lett. I. 476 Item, j jagged huke of blakke sengle. Ibid. 480. 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 112 He hath a pleasure in geagged clothynge [laciniosa veste]. 1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. xxvii. (1870) 190 My rayment is iagged and kut round a-bout. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. i. vi, She might go jagg'd in as many cuts and slashes as she pleas'd for you.
2. Having the edge irregularly cut, gashed, or torn, into deep indentations and acute projections; torn or worn to a ragged or uneven edge.
1577Stanyhurst Descr. Irel. iii. in Holinshed (1587) II. 21/2 The Irish feare a ragged and iagged blacke standard that the citizens haue. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. ix. 10 An vncouth vestiment Made of straunge stuffe, but all to-worne and ragged;..his breech was all to-torne and iagged. 1684T. Burnet The. Earth i. 130 The shores and coasts of the sea..go in a line uncertainly crooked and broke, indented and jag'd as a thing torn. 1797Coleridge Christabel i. 282 Amid the jagged shadows Of mossy leafless boughs. 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 455/1 [The] extremities [of the bone] are always jagged, pointed and uneven. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge lix, Having borrowed a notched and jagged knife.
b. Her. (See quot.)
1828–40Berry Encycl. Herald. I. Gloss., Jagged..is said of the division of the field, or of the outlines of an ordinary, which appear rough by being forcibly torn asunder.
3. Having the margin naturally furnished with deep irregular indentations and projecting points; laciniated: esp. of leaves, petals, and the like.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §20 Golds hath a shorte iagged lefe. 1685J. Chamberlayne Coffee, Tea & Choc. 38 Its branches are covered with white and yellow flowers jagg'd and pick'd from top to bottom. 1740P. Collinson in Darlington Mem. Bartram & Marshall (1849) 137 A very pretty dwarf Gentian, with a large blue flower, the extremity of the flower-leaves, all notched or jagged. 1767Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 421 The Morsus Diaboli, a jagged body, ridiculously so called, resembling a fringe. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 49 Dianthus cæsius,..petals jagged and bearded.
b. In names of plants: Having jagged leaves or flowers.
1548Turner Names Herbs s.v. Verbenaca, The leaues are deaplyer endented... It may be called in english geagged Bugle. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 88/2 Jagged Germander hath the flowers spiky. 1776–96Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 603 Geranium dissectum..Jagged Cranesbill. Road sides; borders of fields, ditch banks.
4. Irregularly and sharply pointed.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋80 All ice beginning, maketh jagged pikes, after the fashion of a Nettle-leafe. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. iv. (1858) 205 Two jagged points, or ‘teeth of the cliff’. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VII. lx. 306 Frowning cliffs and jagged pinnacles. 1900Blackw. Mag. July 117 The quick jagged spear of the lightning flashed forth.
▪ II. jagged, a.2 slang (chiefly U.S.).|dʒægd|
[f. jag n.2 1 c + -ed2.]
Drunk, intoxicated.
1737Pennsylvania Gaz. 6–13 Jan. 1/3 He's Jagg'd. 1902Telegram (Winnipeg) 20 Aug. 7/4 Miller was pretty well jagged. 1904‘O. Henry’ in N.Y. World Mag. 1 May 8/2 What I want is a masterful man that slugs you when he's jagged, and hugs you when he ain't jagged. 1956Amer. Speech XXXI. 279 Jagged, adj. In the sense of intoxicated..[it] is probably not of American origin.
b. Intoxicated by, or under the influence of, drugs.
1938C. Himes Black on Black (1973) 175 She made him smoke pot and when he got jagged..she put him out on the street. 1973Boyd & Parkes Dark Number xiii. 151 Solange is—was—God help her, a heroin addict. When we first met, she was all jagged up. She was a reject on the junk heap. |