knag

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English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English knagge. Cognate with German Low German Knagge, Danish knage, Swedish knagg. Related to knarr and knur.

Noun

knag (plural knags)

  1. A short spur or stiff projection from the trunk or branch of a tree, such as the stunted dead branch of a fir
  2. A peg or hook for hanging something on
  3. (obsolete) One of the points of a stag's horn or a tine
  4. A knot in a piece of wood or the base of a branch
  5. A pointed rock or crag
  6. (Scotland) A small cask or barrel; a keg or noggin
  7. (Scotland, obsolete) The woodpecker

Etymology 2

From Middle English knaggen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

knag (third-person singular simple present knags, present participle knagging, simple past and past participle knagged)

  1. To hang something on a peg

Anagrams

Danish

Pronunciation

Noun

knag n (singular definite knaget, plural indefinite knag)

  1. creak

Inflection

Declension of knag
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative knag knaget knag knagene
genitive knags knagets knags knagenes

Synonyms

Noun

knag c (singular definite knagen, plural indefinite knage)

  1. dab, dab hand

Inflection

Declension of knag
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative knag knagen knage knagene
genitive knags knagens knages knagenes

Verb

knag

  1. imperative of knage

Polish

Pronunciation

 

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Low German Knagge.

Noun

knag m inan

  1. (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) knag (wooden peg on a wall for hanging)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

knag f

  1. genitive plural of knaga

Further reading

  • Antoni Krasnowolski (1879) “knag”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 304
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