Jag vs Men - What's the difference?
jag | men |
A sharp projection.
* Holland
A part broken off; a fragment.
(botany) A cleft or division.
(Scotland) A medical injection.
To cut unevenly.
(Pittsburgh) To tease.
A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 88:
a one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
(man)
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men .
(lb) (The) people, humanity.
As nouns the difference between jag and men
is that jag is a sharp projection while men is irregular plural of man.As acronyms the difference between jag and men
is that jag is judge Advocate General while MEN is acronym of multiple endocrine neoplasia.As a verb jag
is to cut unevenly.As a proper noun Men is
a god once worshipped in the western interior parts of Anatolia, and associated with lunar symbolism.jag
English
Etymology 1
The noun is from late (etyl) jagge, the verb is from jaggen.Noun
(en noun)- garments thus beset with long jags
- (Bishop Hacket)
Derived terms
* (l)Verb
Etymology 2
Circa 1597; originally "load of broom or furze", variant of British English dialectal , of unknown origin.Noun
(en noun)- ‘People who spend their money for second-hand sex jags are as nervous as dowagers who can't find the rest-room.’