Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
scag. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
scag, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
scag in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
scag you have here. The definition of the word
scag will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
scag, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
Unknown.[1][2] Compare scat (“heroin; whiskey”), slag (“waste; a prostitute”), skank (“a disreputable woman”).
Pronunciation
Noun
scag (countable and uncountable, plural scags)
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin
1975, David Allan Coe (lyrics and music), “Cocaine Carolina”, performed by Johnny Cash:So goodbye Cocaine Carolina, you and I are through / I'm going back to Sandy Scag, she knows just what to do
1996, Mark Ravenhill, Shopping and Fucking, Scene One:Mark: No. I'm off the scag. Ten days without the scag. And I'm going away.
- (slang, countable, derogatory, originally African-American Vernacular) A woman of loose morals.
- (slang, countable, dated, US) A cigarette.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cigarette
1915, “The Doomsday Butt”, in The Cornhusker, page 458:“Then have a skag,” said I. / “’Twill make it seem like happier times, / You liked this brand, I understand.”
1996, Paul Bunker, Keith Barlow, Bunker's War: The World War II Diary of Paul D. Bunker, page 134:Awoke when our florescent lights came on and went outside to smoke a few scags before breakfast.
Descendants
Verb
scag (third-person singular simple present scags, present participle scagging, simple past and past participle scagged)
- (computing) To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the file system or by causing media damage.
That last power hit scagged the system disk.
References
Anagrams
Irish
Etymology
From Old Norse .
Verb
scag (present analytic scagann, future analytic scagfaidh, verbal noun scagadh, past participle scagtha)
- to strain, filter
- to drain off
- to refine
- to sift
- to derive, spring (from source)
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
Derived terms
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scacaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “scag”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “scag”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “scag”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024