Dago vs. Dag — What's the Difference?

Used as a disparaging term for a person of Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese descent.

A lock of matted or dung-coated wool.

A person of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, or other Mediterranean descent.

A hanging end or shred.

A person of Italian descent.

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 nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent.

A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.

Offensive terms for a person of Italian descent

A skewer.

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

(obsolete) A dagger; a poniard.

(obsolete) A kind of large pistol.

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.

An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so.

(graph theory) A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair $(V,\; E)$ such that $E$ is a subset of some partial ordering relation on $V$.

A misty shower; dew.

To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.

To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.

(transitive) To skewer food, for roasting over a fire

(transitive) To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags

To be misty; to drizzle.

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

A dagger; a poniard.

A large pistol formerly used.

The unbranched antler of a young deer.

A misty shower; dew.

A loose end; a dangling shred.

To daggle or bemire.

To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment.

To be misty; to drizzle.

10 grams

A flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing