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▪ I. † cag, n.1 ? Obs.|kæg|
Forms: 6 cagge, 7–8 cagg, 5, 7 kag, 7– cag.
[Identical with ON. kaggi, Sw. kagge ‘keg, cask’. From the fact that ships, or boats, and casks, or tubs, often go by the same name, some propose to identify these words with Du. kaag fishing-boat (see sense 2), early mod.Du. kaghe, LG. kag, with which Franck compares Rhenish kac (? from kag), found already in the 14th c. Cf. also F. cague fishing-boat (from Du.), and caque a herring-barrel. But of the origin and history of the word-group or groups, nothing certain is known. Now corrupted to keg: cf. the Cockney keb, ketch for cab, catch.]
1. A small cask, a keg. ? Obs.
1452Inv. in Test. Ebor. III. 136, j saltkag lignei xd. 1596Wills & Inv. N.C. (1860) II. 263 Iij cagges of strudg⁓shon..ij cagges of eaylles. 1611Cotgr., Encacquer, to put into a little barrell, or cag. Encacqué..incagged; put into a cag. 1690A. Behn Wid. Ranter iii. i, To drink a cagg of Syder. 1704Worlidge Dict. Rust. et Urb., Cagg or Keg; this in respect of Sturgeon is 4 to 5 gallon. 1785Wolcott (P. Pindar) Lousiad ii. Wks. I. 246 A brandy cag. 1797P. Wakefield Mental Improv. (1801) I. 50 Vast quantities are salted or pickled, and put up in cags.
†2. A small fishing-vessel. (Du. kaag.) Obs.
1666Lond. Gaz. No. 113/3 Several Caggs from Holland, were..suffered..to pass. 1667Ibid. 179/2 Privateers..have..taken 8 Kags or small ships near Wangerold.
▪ II. † cag, n.2 Obs. exc. dial.
A stiff point.
1604Edmonds Observ. Cæsar's Comm. 113 Great firme boughs..spreading themselues at the top into sharpe cags. [1847–78Halliw. Cag, a stump. West.]
▪ III. cag, n.3 Naut. slang.|kæg|
Also kagg.
[Cf. cag v. 2.]
An argument.
1916M. T. Hainsselin In Northern Mists xviii. 69 We had a right-down regular genuine old-fashioned Ward-room Cag about it. 1918‘Bartimeus’ Navy Eternal 330 This..is developing into a ‘Branch-kagg’. 1932C. Morgan Fountain 150 He was one with..a passion for argument on remote unprofessional subjects. He would sit down to what he called a ‘cag’ as eagerly and patiently as a dog before a rabbit bone.
So as v., to argue, to nag.
1919‘Etienne’ Strange Tales fr. Fleet 23, I've never met such a crowd for ‘kagging’. 1932‘N. Shute’ Lonely Road xi. 233 I'm not going to worry you, or cag about this any more.
▪ IV. cag, v. dial.
[cf. caggy 2.]
trans. To offend, insult. (Quot. 1504 is doubtful.)
1504in Plumpton Corr. 186 The other tenaunts cannot pays ther housses, but they shalbe cagid. 1801Southey Lett. (1856) I. 149 Pray, pray do not cag Horne Took for the sake of the debates. 1886Long Isle of Wight Dial. 9, Cag, to insult, offend. ‘I've ben and cagged en now, I louz’—I have offended him now, I think. [Cagged, Kegged = offended, affronted, in various dialects.] |