cag

noun, verb — 12 senses

CAG

nounalso spelled CAG
1

Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Government, Military, Natural sciences, Nautical, Physical sciences, Politics, Transport, War Abbreviation, Initialism Initialism of commander of the air group.

2

Business, Finance Abbreviation, Initialism Initialism of compound annual growth.

3

Abbreviation, Initialism Initialism of Comptroller and Auditor General.

4

Medicine, Sciences Abbreviation, Initialism Initialism of coronary artery graft.

5

Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Genetics, Medicine, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The nucleobase coding triplet cytosine (C), adenine (A), guanine (G).

6

Abbreviation, Initialism Initialism of context-augmented generation.

Machine learning

cag

verb

Etymology Uncertain. Cognate with Scots kag, kagg (“to vex, grieve”). Perhaps from Middle English caggen (“to tie, bind”), possibly from or related to Old Norse kǫgurr (“quilt, blanket, bedcover, coffin cloth”). Alternatively, perhaps allied with Norwegian Nynorsk kjaka (“to wrangle, harass”).

1

Dialectal, Slang To vex; annoy; insult, offend; grieve.

  • If a little petulance be discovered in SPRING's printed reply, perhaps it was cagged out of him by the very unceremonious manner of approach adopted by Langan and Reynolds […]1824, Pierce Egan, Boxiana; Or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism, page 344:
2

Dialectal, Slang To chatter, gossip.

Derived terms
caggy, cag-mag

cag

noun

Etymology From Middle English kag, of North Germanic origin, related to Old Norse kaggi, Swedish kagge.

cag

noun

Etymology From English dialect, from Middle English *kagge, perhaps from Old Norse *kagi, *kaggi, from Proto-Germanic *kagô (“bush, stump”). Cognate with dialectal German Kag (“cabbage stalk, stump”), Swedish kage (“treestump”). Possibly from the same root as Old Norse kaggi (“barrel, cask, keg”). Doublet of chag.

1

Dialectal A projecting piece left on a tree or shrub when a branch is severed; knob; stump.

2

Dialectal The stump of a broken tooth; a tooth standing alone.

3

Dialectal An angular tear or rent in a piece of cloth.

Derived terms
cack-handed

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