vag

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of vagina.

Alternative forms

• vadge, vaj

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /væd͡ʒ/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -æd͡ʒ

Noun

vag (plural not attested)

1. (US slang, chiefly vulgar) Vagina (or, informally, vulva).
   • 2012, “Ke$ha Die Young PARODY! Key of Awesome #65”, The Key of Awesome (lyrics), Ke$ha (music)‎:

     Out the cab flash the vag / Set the women's movement back

   • 2012, “My Vag”, performed by Awkwafina:

     My vag squirt aloe vera / Yo' vag look like Tony Danza

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of vagrant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /væɡ/
• Rhymes: -æɡ

Verb

vag (third-person singular simple present vags, present participle vagging, simple past and past participle vagged)

1. (transitive, slang) To arrest somebody as a vagrant.
   • 2002, T. R. St. George, Clyde Strikes Back, page 250:

     But I seen on the TV it was colder'n a witch's tit here so I stayed. Stuck it out. Then I caught a freight and got vagged.

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /væɡ/
• Rhymes: -æɡ

Noun

vag (plural vags)

1. (UK, dated, dialect, Devon) Turf used as fuel.
   • 1983, Eric Hemery, High Dartmoor, Land and People, →ISBN, page 91:

     Localities where vags were cut are sometimes so named: e.g. Vag(s) Hill (Row Brook, Double Dart); Vag Hill (Glaze Brook, Avon).

   • 1984 October 5, A. A. (Commons Commissioner) Baden Fuller, “Course of proceedings”, in In the Matter of Gidleigh Common, Gidleigh, West Devon District, Devon‎, page 5:

     They had not driven their ponies over the Unit Land; she had probably cut a vag from the Unit Land but this was done only in the presence of witnesses to determine whether those objecting were vigilant to stop any exercise of this right, and only on one occasion.

   • 1985 January 21, A. A. (Commons Commissioner) Baden Fuller, quoting Thomas Hutchings, “4 Nattadon Road/28 Meldon Road”, in In the Matter of Chagford Common, Meldon Common, Nattadon Common, Padley Common, Weekbrook Down, Week Down, Steniel Down, and Jurston Green all in Chagford, West Devon District, Devon‎, page 14:

     I first grazed ponies on Padley in 1932 and my ponies are grazing there still. I take bracken for the garden, rushes to cover my potato clam, bean sticks for the garden and I expect I am one of the few who still cut vags (peat) on common land for fuel.

Verb

vag (third-person singular simple present vags, present participle vagging, simple past and past participle vagged)

1. (UK, archaic, dialect, Devon) To drag; to trail on the ground.
   • 1892, Sarah Hewett, The Peasant Speech of Devon‎, page 140:

     Düee 'old up yer frock, an' not let 'n vag along like that; tha bottom aw'n 'll be tiffled out, and covered wi' mucks.

2. (UK, archaic, dialect, Devon) To bend; to give; to yield.
3. (UK, dated, dialect, Devon) To flap; to blow in the wind.
   • 1967, Henry Williamson, A Solitary War:

     Smoke immediately vagged about in the parlour chimney.

References

• Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary‎, volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 335

Anagrams

• AGV, AVG, Gav, VGA, avg.

Danish

Etymology

From French vague.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaːɡ/, ,

Adjective

vag

1. vague

Inflection

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) va'g

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vako, borrowed from Baltic. Cognates include Finnish vako.

Noun

vag

1. furrow

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin vagus, via French vague.

Adjective

vag (neuter singular vagt, definite singular and plural vage, comparative vagere, indefinite superlative vagest, definite superlative vageste)

1. vague

References

• “vag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin vagus, via French vague.

Adjective

vag (neuter singular vagt, definite singular and plural vage, comparative vagare, indefinite superlative vagast, definite superlative vagaste)

1. vague

References

• “vag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French vague, Latin vagus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaɡ/

• Audio

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Adjective

vag m or n (feminine singular vagă, plural vagi)

1. vague

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From French vague, from Latin vagus (“unsteady, wandering”).

Adjective

vag (comparative vagare, superlative vagast)

1. vague

   själens subtilaste infall, dess vagaste föreställningar, dess flyktigaste drömmar

   the soul's most subtle inventions, its vaguest conceptions, its most volatile dreams

Declension

Synonyms

• diffus
• otydlig

Related terms

• vackla
• vagabond
• vagant
• vaghet

References

• vag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vag in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• gav

Volapük

Noun

vag (nominative plural vags)

1. emptiness

Declension