1
- （一般作dags）a lock of wool matted with dung hanging from the hindquarters of a sheep羊臀沾粪结块毛簇。
2
- Austral. /NZ informal a socially conservative person〈澳/新西兰, 非正式〉不善交际的人。
(dagged, dagging)with obj.
- cut dags from (a sheep)剪（羊）后臀脏毛：
we failed to have the ewes dagged.
我们没能把母羊的后臀结块脏毛剪掉。
短语
rattle one's dags
- informal hurry up〈非正式〉赶紧。
词源
late Middle English （denoting a hanging pointed part of something, such as ornamental edging on the bottom of a garment）： possibly related to TAG1 . Sense 1 dates from the early 17th cent.; sense 2 is a tranferred use of English dialect meaning 'a challenge or dare'.