Dawg vs Darg - What's the difference?
dawg | darg |
; also (hound dawg).
(slang) Dude, bud, pal. used to address a close male friend.
(dialect)
* 1897 , Herbert George Wells, The Invisible Man ;
Darg is a alternative form of dawg.
As nouns the difference between dawg and darg
is that dawg is eye dialect of nodot=8 lang=en; also {{term|hound dawg}} while darg is a {{l/en|day}}’s {{l/en|work}}, the {{l/en|task}} of a day; also, a defined {{l/en|quantity}} or {{l/en|amount}} of work, or of the {{l/en|product}} of work, done in a certain {{l/en|time}} or at a certain {{l/en|rate}} of {{l/en|payment}}; a task.As an initialism DAWG
is directed acyclic word graph.dawg
English
Noun
(en noun)- That dawg won't hunt.
- Sup, dawg .
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
*Usage notes
Using this spelling of dog'' emphasizes dialect and should only be done if this is explicitly intended. Every example above could also be written with ''dog , de-emphasizing dialect.Anagrams
*darg
English
Etymology 1
First attested in late (etyl); a .Alternative forms
* * *Derived terms
* * * *References
* “Darg]” listed on page 33 of volume III (D–E), § i (D) of [1st ed., 1897 * “
darg]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989
Etymology 2
The in many American dialects.Noun
(en noun)Chapter III:
- Hall had stood gaping. "He wuz bit," said Hall. "I’d better go and see to en," and he trotted after the stranger. He met Mrs. Hall in the passage. "Carrier’s darg ," he said "bit en."
