ag
Expressing annoyance, remorse, surprise, etc.: oh, ah.
Interjection
- Expressing annoyance, remorse, surprise, etc.: oh, ah.
- Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling / We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee - 1962, Jeremy Taylor, “Ag Pleez Deddy”:
- ‘Ag, fuck it,’ he said. ‘Let bygones be bygones, man.’ - 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 88:
- Finally, after placing four books on the desk, he turned to a sheepish Kathy and said, ‘Ag, there's nothing wrong with these desks,’ and walked out. - 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of...
Origin
Borrowed from Afrikaans ag, from Dutch ach.
Derived
Noun business, construction
- Clipping of aggregate (“small rocks mixed into concrete”).
- The mix should include a good selection of large, medium, and small ag.
- If the mix is too fluid, the ags can sink away from the surface.
Origin
Clipping of aggregate.
Forms
Noun abbreviation, alt of
- Clipping of agriculture.
- He got his degree from the state ag college.
- My class is over on ag campus.
- Even the most ag-centric member of the Agriculture Committee […] - 2014, Ferd Hoefner, quoted in Jennifer Steinhauer, “Farm Bill Reflects Shifting American Menu and a Senator’s Persistent Tilling”, NYTimes.com (2014...
Origin
Clipping of agriculture or agricultural.
Forms
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Noun alt of
- Alternative letter-case form of AG (“aggressive (butch)”).
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