Words & TermsPeople and character
dag
Also: daggy, dagginess
An unfashionable, awkward or endearingly eccentric person.
In a sentence
I felt like a dag in that oversized borrowed suit.
Where it came from
The modern Australian sense developed from older uses for an eccentric or entertaining character, with possible influence from wag. The unfashionable-person sense is recorded from the 1960s.
- First recorded
- 1960s
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australia-wide