# agg
## English
### Adjective

agg (not comparable)
* Clipping of aggravated.

### Noun

agg (uncountable)
* (sports) Clipping of aggregate. (the total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores)

### Verb

agg (third-person singular simple present aggs, present participle agging, simple past and past participle agged)
* (dialectal) Alternative form of egg (“encourage”)
** 1923, Lucy S. Furman, The Quare Women: A Story of the Kentucky Mountains, page 38:And as for Cynthy, his maw, she won't hardly speak to me; and, though she is my offspring, is the bitter-heartedest and keen-tonguedest woman hit ever was my lot to meet up with. But for her agging him on, hit is my belief Fulty never would [do anything].

### See also

* pass-agg

### Anagrams

* GAG, gag

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɒɡː]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒɡː

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *soŋkɜ (“old, to grow old”).

#### Adjective

agg (not comparable)
* (literary) very old, aged
    See synonyms at öreg.

##### Derived terms

* aggság
* aggkor
* agglegény
* aggszűz

#### Noun

agg (plural aggok)
* old man

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Same word as above. *soŋ(k)ɜ could have been both a noun and a verb, even if it has no verbal cognates. But it was influenced by aggódik (“to worry”).

#### Alternative forms

* aggik

#### Verb

agg
* (intransitive, dialectal) to shrivel, shrink, diminish (to become smaller, denser, or more compact)
* (intransitive, poetic) to worry, to be anxious
* (intransitive, dated) to age, grow old

##### Conjugation

See also its conjugation table at E-Szókincs.

##### Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):
* elagg
* megagg

### See also

* aggat (“to hang, append, attach [multiple things]”) (related to akaszt)

### References

* ↑ Entry #907 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
* ↑ agg in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* (very old): agg in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (to shrink, to worry, to age): agg in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* agg in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse aga (“to threaten”), from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“fear, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be depressed, afraid”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἄχος (ákhos, “distress, pain”), English ey and awe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑɡː/

### Noun

agg n (definite singular agget, uncountable)
* enmity, ill will (often implying that the enmity is hidden)

### Further reading

* “agg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* ag

### Etymology

Derived from Old Norse eggja.

### Verb

(Shetland) agg (third-person singular simple present aggs, present participle aggin, simple past agged, past participle agged)
* to drive towards or against the shore
* to be driven shorewards
* to irritate (by teasing)

### Further reading

* “agg, v.1 tr. and intr.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
* Eagle, Andy, editor (2025), “agg”, in The Online Scots Dictionary‎

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse aga (“to threaten”), from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“fear, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be depressed, afraid”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἄχος (ákhos, “distress, pain”), English ey and awe.

### Noun

agg n
* grudge, resentment, ill will
    hysa agg mot någonhave a grudge against someone

#### Declension
### References

* agg in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* agg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* agg in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)