snag

== English == === Pronunciation === (without æ-raising before /ɡ/) (Received Pronunciation, General American, Australian) IPA(key): /snæɡ/ (Standard Southern British, Northern England, Scotland, Wales) IPA(key): /snaɡ/ (Australian) IPA(key): /snæːɡ/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /snɛɡ/ (æ-raising before /ɡ/) (Upper Midwestern US, Northwestern US, Canada) IPA(key): /sneɪ̯ɡ/ Rhymes: -æɡ Hyphenation: sag === Etymology 1 === From earlier snag (“stump or branch of a tree”), from Middle English *snagge, *snage, from Old Norse snagi (“clothes peg”) (compare Old Norse snag-hyrndr (“snag-horned, having jagged corners”)), perhaps related to *sneganą, *snakaną (“to crawl, creep, wind about”) if the original meaning of the root *sneg- was more like “pointy object, stinging creature”. Note also *snakkōną (“to snap at, smack the lips; to blow?”) (German schnacken (“to chat”)) and English sneck, snatch. Compare Norwegian snag, snage (“protrusion; projecting point”), Icelandic snagi (“peg”). Also see the Dutch-origin fish names snoek and snook. ==== Noun ==== snag (plural snags) A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch. Synonyms: knot, protuberance A dead tree that remains standing. A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk. (by extension) Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it. A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth. Synonym: snaggletooth (figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something. Synonym: hitch A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth; a tear. One of the secondary branches of an antler. Synonyms: tine, point ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== snag (third-person singular simple present snags, present participle snagging, simple past and past participle snagged) (transitive) To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection. (transitive, nautical) To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface. (fishing, transitive) To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target. (slang, transitive) To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way. (UK, dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly. (slang, Native American, intransitive) To have noncommittal sexual relations. This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === The Australian National Dictionary Centre suggests that snag as slang for "sausage" most likely derives from the earlier British slang for "light meal", although it makes no comment on how it came to be specifically applied to sausages.Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms The word's use in football slang originates as a shortening of "sausage roll", rhyming slang for "goal", to sausage, and hence, by synonymy, snag. ==== Noun ==== snag (plural snags) (UK, dialect, obsolete) A light meal. (Australia, informal, colloquial) A sausage. [From 1937.] Synonyms: (UK) banger, (NZ) snarler (Australian rules football, slang) A goal. 2003, Greg Baum, "Silver anniversary of a goal achieved", The Age "It just kept coming down and I just kept putting them through the middle," he said. "I got an opportunity, and I kicked a few snags." ===== Translations ===== ==== See also ==== Appendix:Australian rhyming slang Appendix:Australian rules football slang === Etymology 3 === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) ==== Noun ==== snag (plural snags) A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons). === Etymology 4 === ==== Noun ==== snag (plural snags) (informal, uncommon) Acronym of sensitive new age guy. ===== Alternative forms ===== SNAG ===== See also ===== === References === === Anagrams === AGNs, Angs, ngas, NSAG, GNAs, nags, ANGs, gans, GANs, sang, Sang == Irish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sˠn̪ˠaɡ/ === Etymology 1 === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) ==== Noun ==== snag m (genitive singular snaga, nominative plural snaganna) a catch (hesitation in voice), gasp, sob a lull (period of rest) ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== snagcheol (“jazz”) === Etymology 2 === Probably related to Scottish Gaelic snag (“sharp knock”), also "wood-pecker." ==== Noun ==== snag m (genitive singular snaga, nominative plural snaganna) a treecreeper (bird of the family Certhiidae) Synonym: beangán goby (fish) Synonym: mac siobháin ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== === Mutation === === Further reading === Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “snag”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “snag”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm “snag”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026 Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 87 == Scottish Gaelic == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /s̪n̪ˠak/ === Noun === snag f (genitive singular snaige, plural snagan) sharp knock (sound) ==== Derived terms ==== snagan-daraich === Mutation ===