Dagon vs Wagon - What's the difference?
dagon | wagon |
The main god of the Phoenicians, represented as half man and half fish.
* Bible, 1 Sam. v. 2
* (John Milton)
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon , idol of the Philistines.}}
A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.
A freight car on a railway.
A child's riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
(US, Australia, slang) A station wagon (or SUV).
(slang) A paddy wagon.
A truck, or lorry.
(Ireland, slang, dated, derogatory) (A derogatory term for a woman); bitch; slapper; cow.
* 1974 , in Threshold , Issues 25–27, Lyric Players Theatre, page 96:
* 1990 , Roddy Doyle, The Snapper , Penguin Group (1992), ISBN 978-0-14-017167-9:
* 1998 , Neville Thompson, Two Birds/One Stoned , Poolbeg:
As nouns the difference between dagon and wagon
is that dagon is (obsolete) a slip or piece while wagon is .dagon
English
(Dagon)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- They brought it into the house of Dagon .
- This day a solemn feast the people hold / To Dagon , their sea idol.
Anagrams
* *wagon
English
Alternative forms
* waggon (UK)Noun
(en noun)- “I’m not like that; I know what you mean but I’m not like that. When you said a field I nearly laughed because I was in a field last week with Ursula Brogan behind the football pitch. We followed Cissy Caffery there and two boys from the secondary. She’s a wagon . She did it with them one after the other, and we watched.”
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: —Don’t know. ——She hates us. It’s prob’ly cos Daddy called her a wagon at tha’ meetin’. ¶ Sharon laughed. She got out of bed. ¶ —He didn’t really call Miss O’Keefe a wagon, she told Tracy. —He was only messin’ with yeh.
- page 8: “Well fuck yeh, yeh stuck-up little wagon .”