agg

English

Adjective

agg (not comparable)

1. Clipping of aggravated.

Noun

agg (uncountable)

1. (sports) Clipping of aggregate. (the total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores)

Verb

agg (third-person singular simple present aggs, present participle agging, simple past and past participle agged)

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of egg (“encourage”)
   • 1923, Lucy S. Furman, The Quare Women: A Story of the Kentucky Mountains, page 38:

     And as for Cynthy, his maw, she won't hardly speak to me; and, though she is my offspring, is the bitter-heartedest and keen-tonguedest woman hit ever was my lot to meet up with. But for her agging him on, hit is my belief Fulty never would [do anything].

See also

Anagrams

• GAG, gag

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡː

Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *soŋkɜ (“old, to grow old”).

Adjective

agg (not comparable)

1. (literary) very old, aged

   See synonyms at öreg.

Declension

Derived terms

Noun

agg (plural aggok)

1. old man

Declension

Etymology 2

Same word as above. *soŋ(k)ɜ could have been both a noun and a verb, even if it has no verbal cognates. But it was influenced by aggódik (“to worry”).

Alternative forms

• aggik

Verb

agg

1. (intransitive, dialectal) to shrivel, shrink, diminish (to become smaller, denser, or more compact)
2. (intransitive, poetic) to worry, to be anxious
3. (intransitive, dated) to age, grow old

Conjugation

See also its conjugation table at E-Szókincs.

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

See also

• aggat (“to hang, append, attach ”) (related to akaszt)

References

Further reading

• (very old): agg in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (to shrink, to worry, to age): agg in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• agg in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse aga (“to threaten”), from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“fear, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be depressed, afraid”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἄχος (ákhos, “distress, pain”), English ey and awe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑɡː/

Noun

agg n (definite singular agget, uncountable)

1. enmity, ill will (often implying that the enmity is hidden)

Further reading

• “agg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Scots

Alternative forms

• ag

Etymology

Derived from Old Norse eggja.

Verb

(Shetland) agg (third-person singular simple present aggs, present participle aggin, simple past agged, past participle agged)

1. to drive towards or against the shore
2. to be driven shorewards
3. to irritate (by teasing)

Further reading

• “agg, v.1 tr. and intr.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• “agg” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary, 2016.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse aga (“to threaten”), from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“fear, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be depressed, afraid”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἄχος (ákhos, “distress, pain”), English ey and awe.

Noun

agg n

1. grudge, resentment, ill will

   hysa agg mot någon

   have a grudge against someone

Declension

References

• agg in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• agg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• agg in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)