Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
JAG
jag
(noun) a bout of drinking or drug taking
jag, dag
(noun) a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
jag
(noun) a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing
jag
(noun) a sharp projection on an edge or surface; “he clutched a jag of the rock”
jag
(verb) cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
JAG
(legal, military) Acronym of judge advocate general.
Anagrams
• AGJ, JGA
Etymology
Noun
Jag (plural Jags)
(informal) A Jaguar car.
Anagrams
• AGJ, JGA
Etymology 1
Noun
jag (plural jags)
A sharp projection.
A part broken off; a fragment.
(botany) A cleft or division.
(Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.
Verb
jag (third-person singular simple present jags, present participle jagging, simple past and past participle jagged)
To cut unevenly.
(Pittsburgh) To tease.
Etymology 2
Noun
jag (plural jags)
Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
A fit, spell, outburst.
A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
(Scotland, archaic) A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.
Anagrams
• AGJ, JGA
Source: Wiktionary
Jag, n. Etym: [Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. gag aperture, cleft, chink; akin to Ir. & Gael. gag.] [Written also jagg.]
1. A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation. Arethuss arose . . . From rock and from jag. Shelley. Garments thus beset with long jags. Holland.
2. A part broken off; a fragment. Bp. Hacket.
3. (Bot.)
Definition: A cleft or division. Jag bolt, a bolt with a nicked or barbed shank which resists retraction, as when leaded into stone.
Jag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Jagging.]
Definition: To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw; to notch. [Written also jagg. Jagging iron, a wheel with a zigzag or jagged edge for cutting cakes or pastry into ornamental figures.
Jag, n. Etym: [Scot. jag, jaug, a leather bag or wallet, a pocket. Cf. Jag a notch.]
Definition: A small load, as of hay or grain in the straw, or of ore. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] [Written also jagg.] Forby.
Jag, v. t.
Definition: To carry, as a load; as, to jag hay, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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