crock vs dag

crock

noun
  • The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut. 

  • Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense. 

  • A piece of broken pottery, a shard. 

  • An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe). 

  • A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness. 

  • A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container. 

  • A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury. 

  • A low stool. 

  • Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth. 

verb
  • To put or store (something) in a crock or pot. 

  • To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage. 

  • To give off crock or smut. 

  • To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another. 

  • To break something or injure someone. 

dag

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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 

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

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