英语词汇“cagmag”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

cagmag

释义

▪ 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.

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