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Dagga vs Daggy - What's the difference?

dagga | daggy |

As a noun dagga

is (south africa) indian hemp, or dagga can be (south african english) cement.

As an adjective daggy is

(australian slang) uncool, unfashionable, but comfortably so.

dagga

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) dachab.

Noun

(-)
  • (South Africa) Indian hemp, .
  • * 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), (Long Walk to Freedom) , Abacus 2010, p. 217:
    • He started to supplement them by smuggling dagga , and soon found it so profitable that he left the factory altogether.
  • * 1997 , (Thomas Pynchon), :
    • A few basic points, Sir. First, no unnatural Activities. Second, no Opium, no Dagga , no Ardent Spirits, no Wine, and so on.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (South African English) Cement.

    • daggy

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (Australian slang) Uncool, unfashionable, but comfortably so.
  • * 2006 , , Not Quite Ripe: A Memoir , page 49,
    • We wore hippie clothes, looking more daggy than cool.
  • * 2008 , Bella Vendramini, Biting the Big Apple: A Memoir of Life, Love (okay and Sex) in New York City , unnumbered page,
    • I began to feel even more daggy when Bianca swanned me around to meet her sexy, skinny and beautiful friends.
  • * 2011 , Joanne Van Os, The Secret of the Lonely Isles , page 1,
    • The daggiest house in the Bay, that was how people talked about the Isherwood House.
  • * 2011 , Chris Buch, Hello Sunshine: A Blitz Kid's Journey to the Sunshine State , page 288,
    • Actually this wasn?t too bad as a jazz venue, being in the daggiest' pub in the '''daggiest''' part of Capalaba which, in 2004 was still a pretty ' daggy suburb.