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▪ I. cagmag, n. and a. dial. or vulgar.|ˈkægmæg|
[app. a word of dialectal origin, widely used in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, and adjacent counties: of uncertain derivation.]
1. a. A tough old goose. b. Unwholesome, decayed, or loathsome meat; offal ; hence anything worthless or rubbishy.
1771Pennant Tour Scotl. (1790) 11 The superannuated geese and ganders (called here cagmags) which by a long course of plucking prove uncommonly tough and dry. 1811Lex. Balatronicum, Cag Magg, bits and scraps of provisions. Bad meat. 1847–78Halliwell s.v., There is a small inferior breed of sheep called cagmags. 1864Sala in Daily Tel. 27 Sept., Barrels full of kag-mag sweltering in the sun. 1875Tweddell Cleveland Dial. 37 An awd cagmag of a silk gown. 1876Mid-Yorksh. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Cagmag, sb. and adj., refuse; any worthless material. Used, also, of persons, contemptuously. 1877Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Cagmags, (1) old geese, (2) unwholesome meat. 1877Holderness Gloss. (E.D.S.) Cag-mag, refuse, chiefly used in reference to meat, (2) a loose character. 1942P. H. Johnson Family Pattern 80 Maudie is the best beloved woman in London, with the grandest manner. She makes Royalty look like cag-mag.
2. attrib. or adj. Unwholesome, decaying, refuse.
1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 295 The fumes of the vilest tobacco..of ancient fish, of cagmag meat. 1864― Streets of World in Temple Bar Jan. 185 No kagmag wares are sold.
▪ II. cagmag, v. dial.
[f. the n.]
a. intr. To quarrel.
b. trans. To nag.
1882Mrs. Chamberlain Gloss W. Worcs. Words 6 It's only them two aowd craters upstairs a cagmaggin' like thay allays be. 1932H. J. Massingham Wold without End 296 Cotswold possesses a number of these dramatic words... The farm labourer..will ‘grizb’,..his wife ‘cagmags’, not henpecks, him. |