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noun
1.
a sharp projection on an edge or surface.
verb (used with object)
2.
to cut or slash, especially in points or pendants along the edge; form notches, teeth, or ragged points in.
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Jagging
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
verb (used without object)
3.
to move with a jerk; jog.
Origin:
1350–1400; late Middle English jagge (noun), jaggen (v.), of obscure origin
1350–1400; late Middle English jagge (noun), jaggen (v.), of obscure origin
Related forms
jag·less, adjective
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jag
"period of unrestrained activity," 1887, Amer.Eng. from sense "load of hay or wood" (1597), of unknown origin, used in U.S. colloquial speech from 1834 to mean "a quantity, a lot."
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