stag
Part of speech: noun
verb
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and possibly 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”). Doublet of steg (“gander”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.
Inflected forms:
form: stags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: steg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: staig
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: stagg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: stagge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: stags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stagged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: steg
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: staig
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: stagg
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: stagge
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: steg
pos: adv
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: staig
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: stagg
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: stagge
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The city recently carried out a deer census, determining there are 313 stags (males), 798 does (females) and 214 fawns (babies) in Nara Park.
gloss: A young horse (colt or filly).
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
countable
gloss: A male turkey: a turkeycock.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: A romping girl; a tomboy.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
obsolete
gloss: An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
usually
examples: a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.
gloss: An informer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: 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.
gloss: Guard duty.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
uncountable
examples: Between shifts on stag or manning the radio, we grabbed a few hours sleep.
Three days were spent on standby or patrols and a fourth day on guard, with at least eight hours on stag.
gloss: A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Members of the genus Pasimachus […] can be confused with stag beetles […] but stags have elbowed antennae.
gloss: The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
pos: verb
tags: UK
intransitive
gloss: To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: My brother went stag to prom because he couldn't find a date.
Related words: bull
Derived words: baby stag
bull stag
fag stag
hog stag
Kashmir stag
shag
stag beetle
stag-beetle
stag do
stagette
stag-evil
stag film
stagger
staggy
stag-headed
stag hog
staghorn
staghound
staghunt
staghunter
staghunting
staglike
stag moose
stag night
stag party
stagskin
stag weekend
stagworm
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