stag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: stags
form: steg
form: staig
form: stagg
form: stagge
Etymology: From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.
Senses: examples: text: The city recently carried out a deer census, determining there are 313 stags (males), 798 does (females) and 214 fawns (babies) in Nara Park.
ref: 2024 July 23, Lilit Marcus, “Japan may be sick of mass tourism. But the deer in this ancient UNESCO-listed city love it”, in CNN:
synonyms: buck
hart
coordinate_terms: knobber
glosses: An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
glosses: A young horse (colt or filly).
glosses: A male turkey: a turkeycock.
glosses: A romping girl; a tomboy.
glosses: An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
topics: business
finance
glosses: An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
topics: business
finance
glosses: One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
examples: text: a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar
glosses: An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
examples: text: The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.
synonyms: word: bachelor party
word: stag do
word: stag party
word: stag lunch
coordinate_terms: bachelorette party
hen party
glosses: A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
examples: text: We had two disturbers of the harmony of the ship; I mean two stags or informers, one named Robert Wilson, the other John Hewit, from the north of Ireland.
ref: 1838, [Joseph Holt], edited by T. Crofton Croker, Memoirs of Joseph Holt, General of the Irish Rebels, in 1798, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, page 52:
glosses: An informer.
examples: text: Between shifts on stag or manning the radio, we grabbed a few hours sleep.
ref: 2000, Richard Tomlinson, The big breach: from top secret to maximum security, page 31:
text: Three days were spent on standby or patrols and a fourth day on guard, with at least eight hours on stag.
ref: 2012, Max Benitz, Six Months Without Sundays: The Scots Guards in Afghanistan:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Guard duty.
examples: text: Members of the genus Pasimachus […] can be confused with stag beetles […] but stags have elbowed antennae.
ref: 2007, Eric R. Eaton, Kenn Kaufman, Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America, page 132:
glosses: A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
glosses: The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
Hyponyms: sense: male red deer
word: royal stag
sense: male red deer
word: imperial stag
sense: male red deer
word: monarch
Derived terms: baby stag
bull stag
fag stag
hog stag
Kashmir stag
stag beetle
stag-beetle
stag do
stag-evil
stag film
stag-headed
stag hog
stag moose
stag night
stag party
stag weekend
Related terms: bull