stag

== English == === Alternative forms === steg (dialectal) staig (Scotland) stagg, stagge (obsolete) === 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. === Pronunciation === (without æ-raising before /ɡ/) IPA(key): /ˈstæɡ/, [ˈstæɡ] (æ-raising before /ɡ/) (Upper Midwestern US, Northwestern US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsteɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈsteɪ̯ɡ] Rhymes: -æɡ Hyphenation: stag === Noun === stag (countable and uncountable, plural stags) (countable) An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult. Synonyms: buck, hart (sometimes hypernymous) Coordinate term: knobber (sometimes hyponymous) (countable, chiefly Scotland) A young horse (colt or filly). (UK) A male turkey: a turkeycock. (by extension, countable, obsolete) A romping girl; a tomboy. (countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox). (countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange. (countable, finance) 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. (countable, usually attributive) An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event. a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar (countable) 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. Synonyms: (US) bachelor party, (UK) stag do, stag party, stag lunch Coordinate terms: bachelorette party, hen party (countable, slang) An informer. (uncountable, UK, military, slang) Guard duty. (countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae). (countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes. ==== Hyponyms ==== (male red deer): royal stag, imperial stag, monarch ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === stag (third-person singular simple present stags, present participle stagging, simple past and past participle stagged) (intransitive, UK) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks. (transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of. Synonym: shadow ==== Translations ==== === Adverb === stag (not comparable) Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date. ==== Translations ==== === References === (to watch): John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) === Further reading === “stag”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. “stag n.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present. === Anagrams === ATGs, GATS, GTAs, Gast, TAGs, gast, gats, tags == Cornish == === Etymology 1 === Cognate with Breton stag. ==== Noun ==== stag m (plural stagow) tether ===== Derived terms ===== ==== Adjective ==== stag attached, fixed, stuck ==== Verb ==== stag inflection of staga (“to attach”): third-person singular present indicative/future indicative second-person singular imperative === Etymology 2 === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Possibly onomatopoeia”) ==== Noun ==== stag m (plural stagow) mud, mire Synonyms: leys, leysek, pri == Middle English == === Noun === stag alternative form of stagge == Old English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /stɑːɡ/, [stɑːɣ] Rhymes: -ɑːɡ === Verb === stāg first/third-person singular preterite indicative of stīgan == Swedish == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Swedish stag, from Old Norse stag, from Proto-Germanic *stagą. === Noun === stag n (nautical) a stay an appliance with a function similar to a nautical stay ==== Declension ==== === References === “stag”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “stag”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “stag”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) stag in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920) stag in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922) === Anagrams === gast, sagt, tags