Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

daggy

/ˈdæɡi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English

Syllables: dag-gy
IPA: /ˈdæɡi/

11

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Uncool, unfashionable, but comfortably so.

Australian usage; Slang

Example Sentences

""But I remember everything about that day. What everyone was wearing, all the daggy things people said in the car on the way into town. The smell of stubble, upholstery. The taste of tomato in my throat from lunch.""
"We wore hippie clothes, looking more daggy than cool."
"I began to feel even more daggy when Bianca swanned me around to meet her sexy, skinny and beautiful friends."
"The daggiest house in the Bay, that was how people talked about the Isherwood House."
"Actually this wasn′t too bad as a jazz venue, being in the daggiest pub in the daggiest part of Capalaba which, in 2004 was still a pretty daggy suburb."
"“Yeah, I know, I-I was starting to like her too, even though she said I dress "daggy," whatever that means.”"

Etymology

From dag + -y.

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈdæɡi/

Usage

Inflected Forms

daggier (comparative) more daggy (comparative) daggiest (superlative) most daggy (superlative)

Derived Forms

daggily dagginess

Rhymes With

shaggy baggy aggie craggy baggie aggy kashiwagi draggy waggy maggie saggy laggy

Questions

How do you pronounce daggy?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈdæɡi/.
What does daggy mean?: Uncool, unfashionable, but comfortably so.
Where does daggy come from?: From dag + -y.

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