- 1（突然控制不住的）一陣（哭、笑等）
A jag, in this sense, is a short stretch of time when a feeling runs away with you and you cannot quite put the brakes on. The picture teachers give most often is a crying jag: you start crying and it keeps coming, even after the first reason has passed. People also say a laughing jag, and in looser American talk a drinking jag or a shopping jag — a spell of doing too much of one thing. The jag is the burst itself, not the tear or the drink. It is informal, a little old-fashioned in some places; many students will meet fit or bout more often (“a crying fit”). You sit through a jag; you do not “jag” a person in this meaning.
組成The noun is from late Middle English jagge, from Old English giagga, giacga. The ultimate origin could be sound-symbolic of sudden movement. The verb is from jaggen, from Old English giacgian.
同家族的字
- jaggedbuilt on jag in the older “sharp point” picture; same spelling family, though this filing is the sudden spell of feeling
原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Jagnoun
- 1
informalA Jaguar car.
- "One of the ticket collectors at our local station," observed Mr. Fiennes, "has a Jag."
jagnoun詞源 1/d͡ʒæɡ/
- 1
A sharp projection.
- garments thus beset with long jagges and pursles
- The thick black cloud was cleft, and still / The Moon was at its side; / Like waters shot from some high crag, / The lightning fell with never a jag, / A river steep and wide.
- 2
A part broken off; a fragment.
- some Jaggs will ſuffice to be recited
- I depart as air .... I shake my white locks at the runway sun, / I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.
- 3
A flap, a tear in a clothing
- 4
biologybotanynatural-sciencesA cleft or division.
- 5
A medical injection, a jab.
- 6
dialectalA thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
jagverb詞源 1/d͡ʒæɡ/
- 1
To cut unevenly.
- On the Friday […] we had been playing tennis and in some way Geoffrey jagged a finger nail so that it kept catching in his things whenever he touched it.
- 2
To pierce with a sharp object.
- 3
To tease.
jagnoun詞源 2/d͡ʒæɡ/
- 1
Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
- 2
A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
- Consider, the pessimists argue, the vast number of plays which it is only possible to sit through with the assistance of what Ella Wheeler Wilcox would call a mild jag.
- ‘People who spend their money for second-hand sex jags are as nervous as dowagers who can't find the rest-room.’
- 3
A fit, spell, outburst.
- Of course she did not lose her sense of humor (not necessarily to be confused with her laughing fits, which are crying jags turned inside out according to the shrinks).
- Miles had a cold, he always had a cold, it went unnoticed, went without saying, he had coughing jags and slightly woozy eyes, completely unremarked by people who knew him […]
- 4
A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
- 5
archaicA leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- judge advocate general
- jagoff
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。