chuck vs dag

chuck

verb
  • To jilt; to dump. 

  • To discard, to throw away. 

  • To vomit. 

  • To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning. 

  • To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action. 

  • To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck. 

  • On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect. 

  • To touch or tap gently. 

  • To leave; to depart; to bounce. 

  • To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner. 

  • To call, as a hen her chickens. 

  • To make a clucking sound. 

noun
  • Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal. 

  • A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder. 

  • A clucking sound. 

  • A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment. 

  • A gentle touch or tap. 

  • A throw, an incorrect bowling action. 

  • An act or instance of vomiting. 

  • On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect. 

  • A small pebble. 

  • A casual throw. 

dag

verb
  • To be misty; to drizzle. 

  • To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. 

  • To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags 

  • To skewer food, for roasting over a fire 

noun
  • A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. 

  • A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. 

  • A skewer. 

  • A misty shower; dew. 

  • A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire. 

  • The unbranched antler of a young deer. 

  • One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd. 

  • A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V. 

intj
  • Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. 

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