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stagn.1

Brit. /staɡ/, U.S. /stæɡ/
Forms: α. ? Middle English accusative staggon, Middle English–1600s stagge, (Middle English staghe), 1500s–1700s stagg, Middle English– stag. β. Middle English–1600s stage; also (sense 2 only) 1500s northern staige, 1600s staeg, Middle English– Scottish staig.
Etymology: Probably representing Old English *stacga (stagga ) weak masculine; compare various other names of animals, docga dog, frocga frog, *picga pig, wicga beetle. The word seems to have meant properly a male animal in its prime; compare the various senses below and the cognate Old Norse steggi , stegg-r (Norwegian stegg ) male bird, modern Icelandic stegg-r tom-cat, formerly also male fox: see steg n.There is no ground for the current statement that stag is of Scandinavian origin, though some of the senses below may be due to confusion with steg n.
1.
a. The male of a deer, esp. of the red deer; spec. a hart or male deer of the fifth year. (In the 15th cent. †stag of a hart.)
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > in its fifth or sixth year
stag?c1185
second head1774
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Cervus > Cervus elaphus (red deer) > male
hartc825
stag?c1185
α.
?c1185 Pseudo-Cnut Constit. de Foresta xxiv, in Liebermann Gesetze der Ags. (1903) I. 624 (Stowe MS., late 16th c.) Regalem feram, quam Angli a staggon [Camb. MS. c. 1570 Astaggon, Harrison 1577 staggon] appellant.
14.. Chaucer's Sqr.'s T., heading of Part 11 MSS. Petworth & Corpus, The Stag of an hert.
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) ii Þe first yere þat thei [harts] be calfede, þei be ycalle a calfe þe secund yere a bulloke..þe thred yere a broket, þe iiii. yere a stagard, þe v. yere a stagge, þe vi. yere an herte of .x.
1473 Rolls of Parl. VI. 98/2 Oure Graunte.., of a Tonne Wyne, and a Stagge of an Hert.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxii. 62 If you find together the footing of two stagges.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 235 An Hart is called the firste yeare a Calfe..the fourth a Staggerd, the fifth a Stagge, and..the sixth..an Hart.
1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel Hist. Cambria 157 William Rufus was slaine by an Arrowe shot at a Stagge.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xii. 206 Those fallow Deere, and huge-hancht Stags that graz'd Vpon her shaggy Heaths.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. ii. 47 Thy gray-hounds are as swift As breathed Stags: I fleeter then the Roe. View more context for this quotation
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 45 Forrests and Chaces which were well stored with wilde bore and stagg.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 469 The swift Stag from under ground Bore up his branching head. View more context for this quotation
1735 W. Somervile Chace i. 283 [The] stately Stag, that o'er the Woodland reigns.
1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 27 The tiger leagues not with the stag at bay Against the hunter.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 23 Venison, or the flesh of the stag and roe, was more eaten.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 23/2 The Red Deer or Stag..the largest of the British deer, is a native of the temperate regions of Europe and Northern Asia.
1908 Blackwood's Mag. July 105/2 A herd of fourteen reindeer was seen... The horns of the entire band—for the hinds carry them as well as the stags—were still in velvet.
β. 1546 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 250 I must..ride to Tankerslay..& se a showt at a stage, as my keper hath sent me wourd.c1550 Battle of Otterburn iii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 295/1 Vpon Grene Lynton they lyghted dowyn, Styrande many a stage [rhyme crage].
b. figurative. Also in phrases †to go in stag: To go naked. †to make (a husband) a stag, to make to wear the stag's crest = to cuckold. (Obsolete.)
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [verb (intransitive)]
to go in stag1591
nakedize1858
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [verb (transitive)] > defile by adultery > dishonour husband by adultery
byhorec1440
hornc1550
behorn1574
Actaeon1582
to make to wear the stag's crest1591
cornute1597
adhorn1605
hornify1607
tup1608
capricornify1611
cornify1611
cuckolda1616
Vulcan1624
wittol1624
branch1633
shoehorn1638
capricorn1665
cuckoldize1682
to liquor (a person's) bootsa1704
ram-head1713
1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 143 What dooth she make him weare the staggs crest then?
1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. F3 No, come my little Cub, doe not scorne mee because I goe in Stag, in Buffe, heer's veluet too.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. ii. sig. B4v Dap. Yes, but I'ld ha' you Vse Mr. Doctor, with some more respect. Fac. Hang him proud Stagg, with his broad veluet head. View more context for this quotation
1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 30 Paulina her first husband made a Stag.
1935 T. S. Eliot Murder in Cathedral i. 29 Cabined in Canterbury, realmless ruler, Self-bound servant of a powerless Pope, The old stag, circled with hounds.
c. In the names of various species of the genus Cervus. axis stag n. an Indian deer ( C. axis). Carolina Stag n. the North American Wapiti ( C. canadensis).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Cervus > Cervus elaphus (red deer)
red deera1425
olen1591
wawaskeesh1716
wapiti1810
Carolina Stag1859
Roosevelt wapiti1897
Manchurian wapiti1898
Roosevelt elk1902
1859 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) I. 693 The Wapiti or Carolina Stag.
1895 Outing Apr. 4/2 An axis stag glanced across the nala.
1896 R. Lydekker Brit. Mammals 242 Of the allied species, we may mention by name the..Thian Shan Stag (C. eustephanus), the Kashmir Stag (C. cashmirianus)..and the Lhasa Stag (C. thoroldi).
d. The flesh of the stag; venison. rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > game > [noun] > flesh of deer
venisona1300
deer-flesha1400
stag1787
1787 A. C. Borrer Diaries & Corr. (1903) 71 He has given us twice Stag since I have been here.
e. The horn of the stag, as a material for handles of cutlery. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > cutlery > material for handles
stag1876
1876 Callis Cutlery (Brit. Manuf. Industr.) 173 Scales of wood and composition, pressed to imitate stag and buffalo, have been introduced for common goods.
f. transferred. flying stag, the stag-beetle n. Obsolete.
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1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1005 The πλατύκερως, or Harts horn Beetle... Some call it the Bull, others the flying Stag... The French, Cerf volant; the English, Stag-fly, or Flying-fly.
2. northern and Scottish. A young horse, esp. one unbroken.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > foal > unbroken
stag1318
α.
1318 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 373 Item sunt..2 stagges masculi, 1 pullanus masculus.
1346–7 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) p. xxvi Item unus staggus masculi unius anni.
1363 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) p. lxi ij staghes ætatis duorum annorum.
1439–40 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 409 Item 1 equa cum 1 stag ijor annorum.
1483 Cath. Angl. 358/1 A sstagge, pullus.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 410 Vnethes may I wag, man, For-wery in youre stabill Whils I set my stag, man.
1514 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 60 To Thomas, my sone, a stagge to make hym an horrse off.
1522 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 106 To John Cowndon..a colt stagge.
1565 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 245 Item I gyue to thomas pereson my graye fillie stagg.
1684 G. Meriton Praise Yorks. Ale (1685) 105 A Stag is a young Colt.
1778 J. Mill Diary (1889) 55 [The losses of horses and cattle] were soon supplied by the purchase of three cows and two pretty young staggs.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 355 Stag, a young horse.
β. 1478 in Acta Audit. (1839) 82/1 For a meire & a staig xl s.1540 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. i. 170 To Mathewe Hynde, xl s., a fely stage.1558 in J. Croft Excerpta Anat. (1797) 28 Item, a Bay Stoned Staige.a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 395 Some [witches], on steid of a staig, ouer a starke monke straide.1617 in Extracts Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1878) III. 47 Ilk ox, kow, horse, stote, meir, staeg.1654 in Extracts Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1878) III. 388 Item, of ilk hors, meir or stage, going to the mercat, 1s.1792 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum IV. 392 It's neither your stot nor your staig I shall crave..But gie me your wife, man.1812 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1851) I. 309 The staigs were returned to the glebe.Proverbs.1857 J. Miller Alcohol (1858) 123 Keep strong drink from the lad and the boy, ‘Corn is not for staigs’.1899 J. Spence Shetland Folk-lore 228 There's aye watter whaar the staig smores.
3. An animal castrated when full grown.
a. A bull; more fully bull stag. Now dialect, Scottish and Australian.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun]
hartc825
doe-buck?a1500
olen1591
stag1680
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bull > [noun] > castrated or bullock > castrated late in life
stag1680
α.
1680 London Gaz. No. 1482/4 One red Bull Stag with the same Mark.
1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 149/1 Good ox beef, instead of which he had substituted bull beef and bull stag beef.
1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 284 A dairyman's six heavy bull stags..broke over a well secured fence into my field of wheat.
1884 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Old Melbourne Mem. xvii. 123 I just recollect that blue stag... Was he in the mob you saw?
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Stag,..2. A castrated bull. The term is applied to any animal emasculated after maturity.
1894 Harper's Mag. Feb. 354 They require work-steers to do their ploughing and Mr. Bell has brought up half a dozen old ‘stags’.
β. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 44 He returned..muttering that he thought he heard the ‘young staig loose in the byre’.1821 W. Scott Pirate III. iii. 56 The air and bearing of a bull-dog, whilk I have seen loosed at a fair upon a mad staig.1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 726/1 Stag,..In Scot., Staig. Bull-staig is a castrated bull.
b. A boar, hog, or ram. dialect.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > male
boarc1000
stag1784
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > male > castrated or hog
barrowc950
hogOE
swine hog1381
barrow-pig1547
stag1784
mudlark1785
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > male > castrated or wether
wetherc890
wether sheep13..
muttonc1450
stag1784
hamel1835
wedder1866
1784 [see stag-hog n. at Compounds 1b(a)].
1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 260 Boar stag, a castrated boar.
1851 T. Sternberg Dial. & Folk-lore Northants. Stag, an old boar.
1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. Stag, a castrated male animal; as, a ram-stag, a boar-stag, a bull-stag.
4. Applied to the male of various birds. (Cf. steg n.)
a. A cock. dialect. Also spec. in Cock-fighting, a cock less than one year old.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock
cockeOE
chanticleer?a1300
common astrologera1413
dunghill cock1561
red cock1591
cock-a-doodle-doo1604
roost-cock1606
alectryon1664
stag1730
rooster1772
doodle-doo1785
cock bird1788
the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > fighting cock > young
stag1730
1730 J. Cheny Hist. List Horse-matches 168 Each side shew'd some Cocks and some Staggs.
1758 [see stag-match n. at Compounds 2a].
1770 Newcastle Chron. Advt. To be fought for..on the 31st of December, Fifty pounds by cocks and stags, 3lbs. 14oz.
1815 Sporting Mag. 46 59 The practice of running stags with cocks is unavoidable.
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang (at cited word) A young game cock—is a stag.
1886 Live Stock Jrnl. 23 July 99/1 [Letter from Devonshire] Many people who keep hens for their eggs alone do not allow a stag with them.
1894 S. Baring-Gould Kitty Alone I. 96 Bramber learned that day that a cock in Devonshire is entitled stag.
1902 Lindsey & Lincs. Star 29 Nov. 5/2 Fowl stealing... In one case a fine buff Orpington stag has been taken.
b. A turkey-cock of two years and upwards.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Meleagrididae (turkey) > male
cock of India1546
brissel-cockc1565
guinea-cock1577
turkey-cock1578
gobbler1725
bubbly jock1785
staga1825
Tom1840
longbeard1974
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Stag, a cock turkey, killed for the table in his second year.
1849 W. Raynbird & H. Raynbird On Agric. Suffolk vi. 300 Stag—a cock turkey killed for the table in his second year, by which time he often weighs 20 lbs. or more.
1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 165 When a cock turkey arrives at the age of two years, he is called a ‘stag’.
c. A young swan. Obsolete. (Cf. steg n. swan.)
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Cyginae (swans) > [noun] > member of genus Cygnus (miscellaneous) > cygnus olor (common swan) > young
cygnetc1430
stag1544
swannetc1560
staggard1619
1544 Will of Roberte North (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/32) f. 84 My Swanne marke wt all the Swannes Stagges & Signettes callid the crowfote.
5. dialect. The wren.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Troglodytidae > genus Troglodytes > species troglodytes (wren)
wrenc725
little kingc1450
Our Lady's hena1529
jenny wren1648
regulus1678
tope1813
staga1825
kitty1825
feather-poke1831
robin1837
robin redbreasta1873
jenny1881
St. Kilda wren1884
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Stag, a wren.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 35 Wren (Troglodytes parvulus), Stag, Tope (Norfolk; Cornwall).
1893 in H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (Eastern Daily Press) 51 Stag, Common Wren.
6. dialect and colloquial. A big, romping girl; a bold woman.
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1684 G. Meriton York-shire Dial. 55 Nea, nea, great stags, what a durdum thou macks!
1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Stag,..a romping girl.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness 135/2 Stag,..a rude, romping girl.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 411 The likes of her! Stag that one is. Stubborn as a mule!
1922 D. H. Lawrence Aaron's Rod (N.Y. ed.) iii. 33 She too was a tall stag of a thing.
7. slang. [Probably < sense 1; but the reason for the use is obscure.]
a. An informer; esp. in phrase to turn stag. Also see quot. 1725.
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society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer
wrayerc1000
wrobberc1300
discoverera1400
denunciator1474
informer1503
denouncer1533
detector1541
delatora1572
sycophant1579
inquisitor1580
scout1585
finger man1596
emphanista1631
quadruplator1632
informant1645
eastee-man1681
whiddler1699
runner1724
stag1725
snitch1785
qui tam1788
squeak1795
split1819
clype1825
telegraph1825
snitcher1827
Jack Nasty1837
pigeon1847
booker1863
squealer1865
pig1874
rounder1884
sneak1886
mouse1890
finger1899
fizgig1902
screamer1902
squeaker1903
canary1912
shopper1924
narker1932
snurge1933
cheese eater1935
singer1935
tip-off1941
top-off1941
tout1959
rat fink1961
whistle-blower1970
1725 New Canting Dict. Stag,..as, I spy a Stag, used by..Shepherd, lately executed, when he first saw the Turnkey of Newgate, who pursu'd and took him.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Stag, to turn stag, a rogue who impeaches his confederates.
a1826 J. Holt Mem. (1838) II. 52 We had two disturbers of the harmony of the ship; I mean two stags or informers.
1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood I. i. viii. 217 As to clapping him in quod, he might prattle—might turn stag.
a1849 J. Keegan Legends & Poems (1907) 367 My father..became a deserter, but he was not a coward, nor a traitor, nor a stag.
b. (See quots.)
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > perjury > perjurer
manswareOE
false swearerc1380
mansworna1400
forswearer1413
perjurera1500
perjured1526
perjurea1540
post-knight1576
knight of the post1580
perjurator1689
mounter1781
stag1823
straw-shoe1826
subornee1890
perjuress1898
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang s.v. Queer bail are ‘stag’: those men who being hired at a guinea or two per oath, to swear they are worth vast sums, stand about judges' chambers in term-time.
1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (at cited word) In the New York courts, a stag is the technical name for a man who is always ready to aid in proving an alibi, of course ‘for a consideration’.
c. (See quot. 1857.)
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > shilling
s.1387
solidus?a1475
shilling1533
teston1543
twelvepence1563
bord1567
twelvepenny piece1594
sh.1607
hog1673
twelver1699
she-lion1744
grunter1785
twalpenny worth1786
bob1789
pega1790
tower shilling1800
little shilling1826
deaner1839
rogue and villain1857
stag1857
hole1934
1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 20 Stag, shilling.
1887 W. E. Henley Villon's Straight Tip 15 You cannot bank a single stag.
d. A spell of duty. (See also quot. 1881.)
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society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [noun] > spell of work or duty
trick1669
time1696
stem1778
turn1793
tour of duty1800
spell1804
shift1809
steek1889
go-in1890
steek1895
stag1931
wink1937
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 255 A ‘stag’ is also one set to watch while his fellows are engaged in anything in which they wish not to be caught.
1931 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 (ed. 3) 361 Stag, sentry-go.
1959 R. Storey Touch it Light in Plays of Year XVIII. 341 There's seven stags in the hours o' darkness and only five of you to do 'em. Somebody has to do two.
1975 A. Beevor Violent Brink iv. 97 The films would be handed in for processing when they were relieved at the end of their two hour ‘stag’.
e. elliptical for stag-dinner n., stag-party n. at Compounds 1c, etc. ( Compounds 1c). North American.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > feasts for other occasions
plough feast1355
king ale1472
natal1484
primifeste1551
mayor's feast1578
sheep-shearing feast1586
sheep-shearing1611
christening1617
bean-feast1805
updrinking1819
Thanksgiving dinner1830
bump supper1845
potlatch1858
stag1904
rehearsal dinner1906
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > party for men only
stag-party1856
bachelor party1902
stag1971
1904 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 28 May 3 The Myrtle Fishing Club will have a stag at Hurman Hub's Park this evening.
1947 Chicago Tribune 19 Oct. (Comic Suppl.) 6 The marchin' and chowder club's throwin' a stag tonight.
1971 ‘R. Lewis’ Fenokee Project viii. 148 He's getting married tomorrow. Tonight he's holding his stag, and most of the men from the dam are going along.
f. U.S. A man who attends a social function without a female partner. Also quasi-adv. in to go stag.
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society > leisure > social event > [noun] > participant > unattached man or men
stag1905
stag line1934
1905 N. Davis Northerner 213 ‘No man not escorting a lady’—a stag, you know—could go upon the floor.
1905 Dial. Notes 3 21 Are you going to the dance stag?
1924 P. Marks Plastic Age xix. 210 True, he was not ‘dragging a woman’, but several of the brothers were going ‘stag’; so he felt completely at ease.
1926 Ladies' Home Jrnl. July 117 Too many girls failed to get paired; too many boys went stag and saved cab hire.
1928 Daily Express 14 Dec. 19 A needy or avaricious ‘stag’—as male dancers are called in the United States.
1948 This Week Mag. 1 May 16/3 The sign read: ‘No Stags Allowed’.
1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) i. viii. 117 A lot of boys went to the parties stag. Social life was easy for them, not the way it was for girls, who had to wait..until someone called.
1980 R. L. Duncan Brimstone iii. 59 They're not going to let you in by yourself. They have a rule against stags.
8. Commerce slang.
a. A person who applies for an allocation of shares in a joint-stock concern solely with a view to selling immediately at a profit.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > type of
profit taker1552
bull1714
bear1718
fund-monger1734
lame duck1806
stag1845
taker-in1852
cornerer1869
wrecker1876
corner-man1881
market-rigger1881
boursocrat1882
offeror1882
ribbon clerk1882
inflater1884
manipulator1888
underwriter1889
kangaroo1896
piker1898
share pusher1898
specialist1900
tailer1900
writer1906
placee1953
corporate raider1955
tippee1961
raider1972
bottom fisher1974
white knight1978
greenmailer1984
1845 W. M. Thackeray in Punch 9 191 All the Stags in Capel Court.
1846 Punch 10 139 The bubble has in the mean time burst, the deposit is not paid, and the Stag..gives himself no more trouble about the scheme.
1857 S. Smiles Life G. Stephenson xxx. 408 Noble lords were pointed at as ‘stags’..in the share markets.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 13 Apr. 9/1 Another point in the prospectus is the attempt to discriminate between the stag and the bona-fide investor.
b. (See quot. 1854.)
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1854 H. Ayres Fenn's Eng. & Foreign Funds 109 A Stag is one who is not a Member of the Stock Exchange, but deals outside, and is sometimes called an ‘Outsider’.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations.
a. Similative, as stag-eyed, stag-necked, stag-sure adjs.
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1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) xl. 213 The stag-necked horse.
1826 T. Hood Stag-eyed Lady 42 Therefore he chose a lady for his love, Singling from out the herd one stag-eyed dear.
1896 N. Munro Lost Pibroch 69 Girls..not with a flat slouching foot on the soil, but high in the instep, bounding and stag-sure.
b. quasi-adj.
(a) = male.
stag-bird n.
ΚΠ
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Stag When applied to poultry stag-bird is the usual term for a male kept for breeding purposes.
stag harte-beest n.
ΚΠ
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. ix. 188 He had observed an old stag hartebeest standing in the shade of some tall green bushes.
stag-hog n.
ΚΠ
1784 H. Mure in Ann. Agric. 1 124 In a third stye, two stag-hogs that would rise to 20 or 25 stone.
stag-moose n.
ΚΠ
1722 P. Dudley Moose-deer in Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 166 Our Hunters have found a Buck, or Stagg-Moose, of fourteen Spans in heighth from the Withers.
stag-swan n.
stag-turkey n.
ΚΠ
1892 Ld. Tennyson Churchwarden & Curate vii An' 'e torn'd as red as a stag-turkey's wattles.
(b) (In sense 2.)
stag-bay n.
ΚΠ
1606 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) I. 55 Unum equum testiculatum, anglice a stoned stagg bay.
stag-foal n.
ΚΠ
1883 R. M. Fergusson Rambling Sketches xv. 97 May a' your mares be well to foal, An' every ane be a staig foal.
stag-horse n.
ΚΠ
1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye I. xi. 166 I..goes into a field, suppose by night, where there is a very fine stag horse.
c. slang (originally U.S.) = pertaining to or composed of males only; frequently applied spec. to a celebration held on the eve of a man's marriage. Cf. hen party n.
stag-dance n.
ΚΠ
1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Stag-Dance, a dance performed by males only, in bar-rooms, &c.
1873 J. Miller Life amongst Modocs viii. 94 In one of the saloons..men were wont to..have stag-dances.
stag devilry n.
ΚΠ
1911 H. S. Harrison Queed xv. 185 Buck Klinker, returning from some stag devilry at the hour of two a.m.
stag-dinner n.
ΚΠ
1884 H. G. Carleton Thompson St. Poker Club 35 Mr. Tooter Williams had been to a stag dinner in the early evening.
stag-night n.
ΚΠ
1965 Listener 9 Sept. 373/2 On ‘stag nights’ it [sc. the entertainment] is pretty blue.
1973 in E. Dunphy Only a Game? (1976) iv. 110 We went out this evening for his stag night.
stag-party n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > party for men only
stag-party1856
bachelor party1902
stag1971
1856 Knickerbocker Mag. Apr. 407 in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) A party of old bricks [read bucks], who, under pretence of looking at the picture, are keeping up a small stag-party at the end of the room.
1923 ‘Bartimeus’ Seaways xii. 234 We don't want any women. We'll just have a stag party and talk Service shop and play pool afterwards.
1978 J. Wainwright Thief of Time 83 I know people... Class strippers. Stag-party hostesses. There's a real market.
C2.
a. Special combinations.
stag-book n. Commerce slang a book in which was entered the names of the stags or bogus shareholders (see 8).
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > book recording names of stags
stag-book1854
1854 Househ. Words 8 470 You allotted to a great many stags, sir... Didn't you have any stag-books when you allotted?
stag-cart n. = deer-cart n. at deer n. Compounds 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > [noun] > deer-cart
deer-cart1840
stag-cart1894
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > for stag or deer to the hunt
deer-cart1840
stag-cart1894
1894 Daily News 8 Feb. 2/6 A stag-cart of the Mid-Kent staghounds.
stag-chase n. Obsolete = stag-hunting n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > deer
roe huntc1381
roe hunting1486
buck-hunting1664
stag-hunting1722
stag-chase1725
deer-stalking1816
stag-hunt1842
roe stalking1850
1725 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Duke of Portland (1901) VI. 87 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 676) XXXVI. i. 1 This [park] the Duke designed as the chief nursery for his stag-chase.
stag-evil n. (see quots.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > [noun] > swelling of face > disease of jaw
stag-evil1696
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > palsy or paralysis > paralysis of other parts
stag-evil1696
histrionic paralysis1853
glossoplegia1854
spinal shock1898
the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > other disorders of horses
trench?a1450
colt-evilc1460
affreyd?1523
cholera1566
crick1566
incording1566
leprosy1566
taint1566
eyesore1576
fistula1576
wrench1578
birth1600
garrot1600
stithy1600
stifling1601
stranglings1601
hungry evil1607
pose1607
crest-fall1609
pompardy1627
felteric1639
quick-scab1639
shingles1639
clap1684
sudden taking1688
bunches1706
flanks1706
strangles1706
chest-founderingc1720
body-founder1737
influenza1792
foundering1802
horse-sickness1822
stag-evil1823
strangullion1830
shivering1847
dourine1864
swamp fever1870
African horse sickness1874
horse-pox1884
African horse disease1888
wind-stroke1890
thump1891
leucoencephalitis1909
western equine encephalitis1933
stachybotryotoxicosis1945
rhinopneumonitis1957
1696 W. Hope tr. J. de Solleysel Compl. Horseman ii. xxxvii. 56 (heading) Of the Stag's Evil, or Palsie in the Jaw.
1759 T. Wallis Farrier's & Horseman's Compl. Dict. at Convulsions Solleysell calls this malady the stag's evil, or palsy in the jaws.
1823 J. Pursglove Pract. Farriery 81 In convulsions, or stag evil, the horse appears full of spirit.
stag-fever n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1911 B. Holland Life 8th Duke of Devonshire ii. xxiv. 237 He is said to have suffered at critical moments of the sport from the excitement known as stag fever.
stag film n. originally U.S. a pornographic film made for a male audience.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > pornographic film
stag movie1960
pornie1965
skin-flick1965
stag film1968
porno1971
hard R1974
1968 Wall St. Jrnl. 11 Sept. 18/1 Pornography is not one of the nation's truly burning issues, and showing stag films is not our idea of how to run the world's greatest deliberative body.
1977 Gay News 7 Apr. 23/2 She..made these very tame, anodyne stag films that she's always denying.
stag-fly n. Obsolete the stag-beetle.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Lucanidae (stag-beetles) > member of genus Lucanus (stag-beetle)
bull-fly1585
hornet1585
stag-fly1634
hartshorn beetle1658
flying hart1676
stag-beetle1681
flying stag1765
pinching bug1850
pinch bug1856
1634 T. T. de Mayerne et al. Moffett's Insectorum Theatrum (new ed.) i. xxi. 134 Anglis Stag-flie, vel Flying-flie.
1693 S. Dale Pharmacologia 538 Scarabæus cornutus, Schrod... The Stag-fly.
stag-hafted adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [adjective] > having handle made of horn
stag-hafted1797
buck-hafted1815
1797 J. Robinson Directory of Sheffield 45 Stag hafted penknife cutler.
stag-handled adj. furnished with a haft or handle of stag-horn.
stag-hog n. = babirusa n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > genus Babiroussa (babirussa)
babirusa1673
Indian hog1754
hog deer1798
stag-hog1827
pig deer1869
1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom III. 332 The Babiroussa, or Stag Hog.
stag-hunt n. the chasing of a stag as a sport.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > deer
roe huntc1381
roe hunting1486
buck-hunting1664
stag-hunting1722
stag-chase1725
deer-stalking1816
stag-hunt1842
roe stalking1850
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy lii There was a stag-hunt on the lake.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 401 Without exposing himself to any risk greater than that of a staghunt at Fontainebleau.
stag-hunter n. one who hunts the stag; also, a horse used in stag-hunting.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > used in hunting > for hunting particular type animal
stag-hunter1709
runner1810
pigsticker1900
1709 London Gaz. No. 4540/8 Stoln or strayed.., a..Bay Gelding,..hath been a known and constant Stag-Hunter in the Forest of Sherwood for 2 or 3 Years past.
stag-hunting n. the sport of chasing the stag; an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > deer
roe huntc1381
roe hunting1486
buck-hunting1664
stag-hunting1722
stag-chase1725
deer-stalking1816
stag-hunt1842
roe stalking1850
1722 London Gaz. No. 6112/1 There was a general Stag hunting.
1845 W. Youatt Dog iii. 86 Since the death of George III..stag-hunting has rapidly declined.
stag-like adj. resembling a stag or that of a stag.
ΚΠ
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) ii. D 1 b Along the hauens stagge-like Hornes they runne Swiftly to shore.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. i. 4 The small erect head and stag-like throat.
stag line n. U.S. the group of unattached young men at a social function.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > [noun] > participant > unattached man or men
stag1905
stag line1934
1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra i. 16 She would get twice around the dance floor with the same partner, then someone would step out of the stag line and cut in.
1977 G. V. Higgins Dreamland v. 47 As a member of Porcellian I had been invited to the stag line at a gathering on Beacon Hill.
stag-match n. Cock-fighting Obsolete a match for young cocks (see 4a).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > fighting between animals > [noun] > cock-fighting > types of fight
Welsh main1744
bye1754
stag-match1758
1758 London Chron. 29 June 614/2 The Stag Match between Sir Henry Grey, Bart., and Jennison Shafto, Esq.
stag movie n. originally U.S. = stag film n. above.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > pornographic film
stag movie1960
pornie1965
skin-flick1965
stag film1968
porno1971
hard R1974
1960 Christian Herald July 14/2 Teen-agers bought ‘stag movies’ for as much as $50 a reel.
1971 Ink 12 June 3/1 What he found was a hundred men having their mid-shift tea break and enjoying a stag movie.
stag-skin n. Obsolete the prepared hide of a stag.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > deer-skin
deerskin1396
buckskin1433
fawn-skin1553
stag-skin1657
1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe (1893) 60 She gave him a new Scrip of Stag-skin.
stag-snake n. Obsolete = Elaps n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Elapidae or Najidae > member of genus Elaps
stag-snake1668
bead-snake1737
coral-snake1758
coral-serpent1774
garter-snake1775
nachtslang1821
death adder1833
coral1852
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 32 Elaps..the Stag-Snake.
stag-worm n. Obsolete (see quot.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > parasitic or harmful > to animals
sting-worm1577
felter1607
needle-worma1750
stag-worm1753
heartworm1877
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Stag-worms,..a name given to a species of worms produced of the eggs of a fly, and lodged..behind, and under the palate of the stag.
b. In the names of plants.
stag bush n. (see quot.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > viburnums or guelder rose and allies > [noun]
bendwithc1440
opier1548
opulus1548
ople1551
dwarf plane tree1578
water elder1578
whitten1578
guelder rose1597
rose elder1597
wayfaring man's tree1597
wayfaring tree1597
opiet1601
cotton tree1633
viorne1637
mealy tree1640
laurustinus1664
stinking tree1681
black haw1688
laurel-thyme1693
laurustine1693
viburnum1731
wayfaring shrub1731
May rose1753
pembina1760
snowball tree1760
mealtree1785
stink-tree1795
cherry-wood1821
snowball1828
sloe1846
withe-rod1846
lithy-tree1866
nannyberry1867
king's crown1879
stag bush1884
snowball bush1931
1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 94 Viburnum prunifolium..Black Haw. Stag Bush.
stag fern n. = staghorn fern (see stag-horn n. 2c).
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > other ferns
mountain parsley1578
female fern1597
rock parsley1597
spleenwort1597
marsh fern1686
prickly fern1764
parsley fern1777
sensitive fern1780
lady fern1783
stone-brake1796
mountain fern1800
rock brake1802
walking leaf1811
todea1813
shield-fern1814
Woodsia1815
mangemange1817
cinnamon fern1818
climbing fern1818
bladder-fern1828
king fern1829
filmy fern1830
ostrich fern1833
New York fern1843
mokimoki1844
rhizocarp1852
film-fern1855
nardoo1860
gymnogram1861
holly-fern1861
limestone-polypody1861
elk-horn1865
Gleichenia1865
lizard's herb1866
cliff brake1867
kidney fern1867
Christmas fern1873
Prince of Wales feathers1873
Christmas shield fern1878
buckler-fern1882
crape-fern1882
stag-horn1882
ladder fern1884
oleander fern1884
stag fern1884
resam1889
lip-fern1890
coral-fern1898
bamboo fern1930
pteroid1949
fern-gale-
1884 Chron. London Missionary Soc. Apr. 102 Huge stag ferns or fantastic shapes.
stag's garlic n. Obsolete (see garlic n. 1b).

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stag do n. (a) (North American) a social event attended only by men (now rare); (b) (originally and chiefly British) a celebration for a man who is about to get married, attended by his male friends and relations, and often characterized by heavy drinking and bawdy entertainment.
ΚΠ
1915 Bakersfield Californian 23 Sept. 1/2 A reception is called in college parlance a ‘Do’. When it is held by boys, it becomes a ‘Stag-Do’.
1961 G. Ross Television Jubilee v. 103 It was decided to try out the idea of informality on television, though necessarily with different material from that used for stag do's at the Friar's Club!
1992 D. McLean Bucket of Tongues (1994) 90 Surely this was one of the Great Scottish Traditions, that the groom should be half-pished and three-quarters hungover from his stag do right through the ceremony and the reception.
2003 Empire May 56/1 After his stag do, Paul is horrified when he awakes in bed with dancer Becky.

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stag weekend n. (a) (North American) a social event taking place over a weekend and attended only by men; (b) (originally and chiefly British) a celebration organized for a man who is about to get married, attended by his male friends and relations, and taking place over the course of a weekend.
ΚΠ
1907 Lumber World 1 June 51/2 Fred..invited a few of his friends to a stag week-end fishing party.
1941 Motor Boating Jan. 64/2 Except on an occasional stag weekend,..a galley..[is an] important..adjunct to comfortable cruising.
1981 Colorado Springs Gaz. Tel. 18 Oct. 3 f/2 Bob had turned this trip into a stag weekend in which the eight of us cooked up a storm..[and] drank a good deal.
1988 R. Harty Grand Tour ii. 37 They were off to Ostend for a stag weekend. The prospective groom was accompanied by his father.
2005 GQ Oct. 396 (advt.) From unique activities like..cliff-jumping to the standard strippers,..Chillisauce offers everything you need for an unforgettable stag weekend.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

stagn.2

Brit. /staɡ/, U.S. /stæɡ/
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of stack n.
Perhaps: = stack n. 7.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > land mass > reef > stack > [noun]
carrc950
stack1769
stag1776
stalk1806
sea-stack1899
1776 Ann. Reg. 1775 185/1 The Abby,..having lately gone to pieces on the Stags near Kenrule, in Ireland, the captain, mate, and two common men..were cast upon the lower stags.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Stag, a name given to a rock..as off the Lizard, Castlehaven, &c.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

stagn.3

Brit. /staɡ/, U.S. /stæɡ/
Etymology: ? variant of stake n.1
1. A stake, pile. (Cf. stag v.2) dialect.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > in form of bar, pole, rod, etc.
stingc725
stakec893
sowelc900
tree971
rungOE
shaftc1000
staffc1000
stockc1000
poleOE
spritOE
luga1250
lever1297
stanga1300
perchc1300
raftc1330
sheltbeam1336
stower1371
palea1382
spar1388
spire1392
perk1396
ragged staff1397
peela1400
slot1399
plantc1400
heck-stower1401
sparkin1408
cammockc1425
sallow stakec1440
spoke1467
perk treec1480
yard1480
bode1483
spit1485
bolm1513
gada1535
ruttock1542
stob1550
blade1558
wattle1570
bamboo1598
loggat1600
barling1611
sparret1632
picket1687
tringle1706
sprund1736
lug-pole1773
polting lug1789
baton1801
stuckin1809
rack-pin1821
picket-pin1844
I-iron1874
pricker1875
stag1881
podger1888
window pole1888
verge1897
sallow pole1898
lat1899
swizzle-stick1962
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Stag, var. pron. of ‘stake’.
1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. 227/1 Stag, a stake, pile, fixed or for fixing in the ground. West of S., Aberd[een].
2. A tinman's tool = stake n.1 5a.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > forging equipment > anvil > types of
bickern1547
stake1660
welting stake1660
stag1688
table anvil1824
sparrow-hawk1869
teest1877
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxii. 269/2 He beareth Azure, a Small Stag, or a Round Stag, Argent. This..is for the raiseing of round filletts in Tyn for the Adornement of their Works. The second thing in this square is called a Creesing Stag.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

stagadj.

Forms: Also stagg(e, stage.
Etymology: Of obscure origin.
Obsolete.
Of furs: Raw, unseasoned.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [adjective] > attributes of furs generally
pureda1382
stag1545
burnt1909
furriered1923
ranched1932
sheared1939
let-out1949
1545 Rates Custome House sig. avijv Callabre stagg.
1545 Rates Custome House sig. bijv Foyne stagge.
1545 Rates Custome House sig. dij Stagge the thousande.. Stagge the hundreth.
1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Aviij Callaber stage.
1604 Rates Marchandizes sig. D4 Foynes wombes seasoned... Foynes wombes stage.
1640 in J. Entick Hist. London (1767) II. 177 Coney skins grey, tawed, seasoned or stag.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

stagv.1

Forms: Also 1800s steg.
Etymology: Probably related to stagger v. Compare Old Norse staka to push, stagger (whence stakra stagger v.). The identity of the word in the various senses below is uncertain.
1.
a. intransitive. To stagger, waver. Obsolete.
ΘΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)] > reel, stagger, or sway unsteadily
stackera1300
welt13..
waggera1382
swaver?a1400
blundc1400
swab14..
swabble14..
gogglec1460
reel1477
galay1489
stagger1530
swag1530
stag1561
wheel1832
swig1833
wavel1896
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. ix. f. 156v For euen the Prophete confesseth that his fete stagged.
b. ? To flinch, yield, give way. rare.
ΚΠ
1831 Fraser's Mag. 3 652 The House of Lords..are now making a loud clattering of their determination to stand against the bill—but it is no go. I lay you the long odds..that their Lordships stag.
2. To walk with long strides. Hence stagged-up, tired out with walking. Scottish and dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > with long steps
stridec1200
lamper1727
striddle1786
stroam1796
sling1808
stag1823
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > by or with walking or running
forrun1297
forwalkeda1375
weary of-walkedc1400
forrakeda1500
surbated1575
footsore1660
weary-foot1791
footworn1792
stagged-up1866
run1876
1823 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 311 His ghaist..was seen by many stegging about the estate.
1866 E. Waugh Ben an' th' Bantam 66 Aw let on her [a traveller] o' tother side Yealey Ho'; quite stagged up.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Stag, to walk quickly.
1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags xix Auld Anton went stegging over the hills, till I was fair driven out of my breath.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

stagv.2

Etymology: ? < stag n.3; or variant of stake v.1
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To support with piles.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > lay foundations > with piles
pile1432
stag1610
spile1829
sheet-pile1842
1610 Aberdeen Reg. (1848) II. 300 The said brig to be staggit and branderit sufficiently in deipnes vnder the channall, to mak a sufficient ground to big vpoun.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

stagv.3

Brit. /staɡ/, U.S. /stæɡ/
Etymology: < stag n.1
1. slang.
a. transitive. To observe; to take particular notice of; to watch; also, to find out or discover by observation, to detect. Also absol. or intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)]
seeOE
fanda1000
finda1200
kenc1330
lenda1350
agropea1393
contrive1393
to find outc1405
outsearch?a1439
ripec1440
inventc1475
disclose?a1500
fish1531
agnize?1570
discover1585
to grope out1590
out-find1590
expiscate1598
vent1611
to learn out1629
to get to know1643
develop1653
ascertain1794
stag1796
root1866
to get a line on1903
establish1919
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > observe or watch
spya1400
wait1399
espyc1405
watch1487
gate?1590
to look sharp1680
stag1796
to keep one's eyes peeled1844
to skin one's eyes1851
to peel one's eyes1875
to take sights1934
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > watch or observe
keepc1000
overseeOE
waitc1300
advisec1325
awaita1375
to wait on ——c1384
markc1400
contemplec1429
to keep (also have) an (or one's) eye on (also upon)a1450
to look straitly to?c1450
to wait after ——c1460
vizy1488
contemplatea1533
vise1551
pry?1553
observe1567
eye1592
over-eye?1592
watch1600
outwatch1607
spell1633
superintend1654
under-watch1654
tent1721
evigilate1727
twig1764
stag1796
eye-serve1800
spy1806
deek1825
screw1905
clock1911
1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) To Stag, to find, discover, observe.
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London II. v. 120 I shall soon stag who they are.
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang (at cited word) To ‘stag’ a thief, to look on, and spoil his sport: ‘What's that cove a stagging there for? Down him, Billy’.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 289 When workmen are taking beer clandestinely, one of them keeps on the look out, to watch or ‘stag the master’.
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn v So you've been stagging this gentleman and me, and listening, have you?
1897 G. Bartram People of Clopton v. 130 Who set ye on to watch me?.. And at last..he admitted that Master John had told him to keep an eye on me and Jenny—to ‘stag’ us if he saw us out together—and to get a witness to what went on between us.
b. (See quots.)
ΚΠ
1811 Sporting Mag. 37 11 ‘I stagged him my Lord’.—‘Stagged him, what do you mean by stagged him?’—‘Why, my Lord, I mean I was down upon him’.
1870 Daily News 13 July In the event of a man refusing or sloping, as it was termed, his line was what was called ‘stagged’, and when he went for an advance it was resolutely refused.
c. intransitive. To turn informer; to inform against.
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society > communication > information > informing on or against > inform on or against [verb (intransitive)]
inform1588
peach1598
whistle1599
sing1612
whiddlec1661
squeak1690
wheedle1710
whittle1735
to blow the gab1785
snitch1801
rat1810
nose1811
sing1816
gnarl1819
split1819
stag1839
clype1843
squeal1846
blow1848
to round on1857
nark1859
pimp1865
squawk1872
ruck1884
to come or turn copper1891
copper1897
sneak1897
cough1901
stool1911
tattle-tale1918
snout1923
talk1924
fink1925
scream1925
sarbut1928
grass1929
to turn over1967
dime1970
1839 W. Carleton Fardorougha (1848) xi. 161 But to stag against his companion and accomplice—this was looked upon as a crime.
a1849 J. Keegan Legends & Poems (1907) 380 She imagines that I played foul at New Ross,—that I stagged and betrayed as well as deserted.
d. (See quot. 1860.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > beg or be beggar [verb (intransitive)]
thigc1300
begc1384
crave1393
to go a-begged1393
prowl1530
to go (or have been) a begging1535
maund?1536
to bear the wallet1546
cant1567
prog1579
to turn to bag and wallet1582
skelder1602
maunder1611
strike1618
emendicate1623
mendicate1623
to go a-gooding1646
mump1685
shool1736
cadge1819
to stand pad1841
stag1860
bum1870
schnorr1875
panhandle1894
pling1915
stem1924
nickel-and-dime1942
1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Stag, to demand money, to ‘cadge’... Also, to dun, or demand payment.
2. Commerce slang.
a. To deal in shares as a stag (see stag n.1 8).
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (intransitive)] > specific operations
soften1565
to get out1728
bear1837
to rig the (stock) market1841
stag1845
cornera1860
to straddle the market1870
raid1889
to make a market1899
to job backwards1907
to mark to (the) market1925
short1959
daisy-chain1979
to pitch for ——1983
1845 W. M. Thackeray in Punch 9 191 What! are ladies stagging it?
1845 [see stagging adj. at Derivatives]. 1905 [see stagging n. at Derivatives].
b. transitive. To deal in (shares) as a stag.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (transitive)] > specific operations
subscribe1618
to take up1655
to sell out1721
to take in1721
to take up1740
pool?1780
capitalize1797
put1814
feed1818
to vote (the) stock (or shares)1819
corner1836
to sell short1852
promote1853
recapitalize1856
refund1857
float1865
water1865
margin1870
unload1870
acquire1877
maintain1881
syndicate1882
scalp1886
pyramid1888
underwrite1889
oversubscribe1891
joint-stock1894
wash1895
write1908
mark1911
split1927
marry1931
stag1935
unwind1958
short1959
preplace1966
unitize1970
bed and breakfast1974
index-link1974
warehouse1977
daisy-chain1979
strip1981
greenmail1984
pull1986
1935 Times 27 Nov. 19/2 The loan was heavily stagged, for the total applications exceeded £14,000,000.
1966 New Statesman 23 Sept. 456/3 The gilt-edged market has now improved to the point where the new issue of ICI loan stock seems likely to be stagged even more heavily than the last.
1981 Daily Tel. 20 July 15/2 The offer is likely to be subscribed although the opportunities for stagging the issue will be limited.
3. dialect. (See quot. 1854 Cf. stag-headed adj.)
ΚΠ
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 289 Stag, to take off the top of a hedge without laying it down.
4. intransitive. To go to or attend a social occasion unaccompanied. Also const. it. U.S. slang.
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society > leisure > social event > [verb (intransitive)] > participate in social events > as unaccompanied male
stag1900
1900 Dial. Notes 2 64 To stag it, to go to a party without escorting a lady.
1941 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 10 May 74/3 If you won't go with me to the picnic, I'll stag.
1973 Lebende Sprachen 18 38/1 He had planned to stag at the class dance.
5. transitive. To cut (trousers or other articles of clothing) off short. Also with off. North American.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > other
fur13..
buttonc1380
lashc1440
pointa1470
set1530
tuft1535
vent1547
ruff1548
spangle1548
string1548
superbody1552
to pull out1553
quilt1555
flute1578
seam1590
seed1604
overtrim1622
ruffle1625
tag1627
furbelow1701
tuck1709
flounce1711
pipe1841
skirt1848
ruche1855
pouch1897
panel1901
stag1902
create1908
pin-fit1926
ease1932
pre-board1940
post-board1963
1902 [see stagged adj. at Derivatives].
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 49 Stag, to cut off trousers at the knee, or boots at the ankle.
1942 L. D. Rich We took to Woods vii. 188 One stags one's pants, one's shirt sleeves, anything that needs to be abbreviated quickly, even one's hair.
1953 R. Moon This is Saskatchewan 215 They [sc. the lumberjacks] wore pants stagged off or rolled half way to the knee so as not to be confused with mere city dwellers.
1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Apr. 16/1 He was always dressed in the same way..heavy..underwear, tin pants stagged to the proper working length.

Derivatives

stagged adj. (of trousers) cut off short; also with off.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [adjective] > trousers > types of
un-codpieced1580
canioned1607
braceless1859
bell-bottom1882
broad-beamed1883
kneed1887
bell-bottomed1891
fall-front1899
stagged1902
pegged1905
pedal pusher1912
pipestem1915
drainpipe1930
chino1943
anti-g1945
low-rise1948
cuffless1957
low-riding1958
hip-hugging1968
plus twos1977
1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail xxvii. 190 A gigantic young riverman in the conventional stagged (i.e. chopped off) trousers.
1933 E. Hemingway Winner take Nothing 29 He wore stagged trousers and lumbermen's rubbers and a mackinaw shirt.
1956 H. S. M. Kemp Northern Trader 114 He had the mackinaw shirt and stagged-off pants, [etc.].
ˈstagging n. North American
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements > share-buying activities
subscribing1762
flyer1846
bearing1849
stagging1851
take-up1865
bear covering1881
straddle1883
portfolio investment1929
short covering1930
support buying1932
foreign portfolio investment1951
corporate raiding1957
leveraged1957
tender offer1964
buy-in1968
management buyout1977
bought deal1981
greenmail1983
MBO1986
bimbo1991
1851 C. Kingsley Yeast ii The Stock-Exchange and railway stagging,..and the frantic Mammon-hunting.
1905 A. I. Shand Days of Past ix. 162 Everything went automatically to a premium, and systematic stagging was a profitable business.
ˈstagging adj. North American
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [adjective] > types of dealer
stagging1845
short1849
weak1875
bearing1883
ursine1899
knifey1937
over-bullish1970
1845 W. M. Thackeray in Punch 9 191 Her appearance created quite a sensation among the stagging gents.
1905 Daily Chron. 13 July 5/6 A peculiarity of the applications is the enormous number of them for £100. A great many of these are obviously of the ‘stagging’ order.
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