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English
Noun
ragg (uncountable)
- (archaic) ragstone
Anagrams
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse rǫgg. Akin to English rag.
Pronunciation
Noun
ragg n (definite singular ragget, uncountable)
- coarse fur, bristles (hair of an animal, especially unordered, wild, rugged, shaggy hair)
Derived terms
References
- “ragg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse rǫgg, from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz (“coarse, rough”).
Same as Danish rag, Icelandic rogg, Norwegian ragg, Old English adjective raggig and English noun rag, Icelandic rýja (“to rip the wool from sheep, to shear”), Latin ruo (“to rip, dig”) and rutrum (“a shovel”). In older times, wool was not cut or shorn from sheep, but ripped or torn off.
Noun
ragg c
- coarse fur, bristles (hair of an animal, especially unordered, wild, rugged, shaggy hair)
resa ragg (also: resa borst, ragga till)- to bristle
Declension
Etymology 2
Deverbal from ragga.
Noun
ragg n
- (colloquial) a person one has (successfully) hit on, a hookup, pickup
att få ett ragg- to successfully pick someone up
hans senaste ragg- his latest hookup
- (colloquial) an instance of hitting on someone, a pickup
ett bra ragg- a good way of hitting on someone
Declension
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