stag
nomverbeadverbeattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//staɡ//
- États-Unis//stæɡ//
- Australie//stæːɡ//
- Nouvelle-Zélande//stɛɡ//
- //steɪɡ//
An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
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An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
The city recently carried out a deer census, determining there are 313 stags (males), 798 does (females) and 214 fawns (babies) in Nara Park.
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A young horse (colt or filly).
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A male turkey: a turkeycock.
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obsolèteA romping girl; a tomboy.
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An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
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An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
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One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
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An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar
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A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.
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A man who allows his wife to have sex with other men.
The stag gets a thrill from watching his vixen have sex with another man.
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argotAn informer.
We had two disturbers of the harmony of the ship; I mean two stags or informers, one named Robert Wilson, the other John Hewit, from the north of Ireland.
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argotGuard duty.
Between shifts on stag or manning the radio, we grabbed a few hours sleep.
Three days were spent on standby or patrols and a fourth day on guard, with at least eight hours on stag.
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A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
Members of the genus Pasimachus […] can be confused with stag beetles […] but stags have elbowed antennae.
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The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
Étymologie
From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and possibly Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Doublet of steg (“gander”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.
verbe
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To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
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To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
adverbe
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Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.
My brother went stag to prom because he couldn't find a date.
Formes
- pluriel
- stags
- passé
- stagged
- participe passé
- stagged
- participe présent
- stagging
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- stags
stag · An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
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