do someone's dags

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.90 in modern English

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To defy someone by doing something that they are unable to do.

British usage; Obsolete; Slang

""Can you climb?" asked Gale of Joe. "Like a monkey." "Of course," said Gale, drily, "very much like a monkey." "That's one to you; but I can do your dags." "You can't." "I can — anybody's dags. Look here.""
"[…] do his dags for him, Billy would, if he could get at him. Wouldn't you, Billy?"

From darings.

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