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▪ I. vag, n.1 Devon dial.
[Cf. fag n.2]
Dried turf or peat used as fuel; a piece of this.
1796W. H. Marshall W. England II. 6 Towards the Mountains, Turf (provincially ‘Vags’) and Peat (provincially ‘Turf’). 1889Portfolio Jan. 11/2 In the winter he may turn many an honest penny by the sale of ‘vags’. 1895G. Mortimer Tales Moors 224 You can cut as much vag—or peat, as you calls it up country—as you'm a mind to.
▪ II. vag, n.2
Austral. and N. Amer. slang abbrev. of a. vagrant n.b. vagrancy. Phr. on the vag, on a charge of vagrancy.
1859G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 94 Vag. Vagrant. ‘Done on the vag’, committed for vagrancy. 1868Daily Territorial Enterprise (Virginia City, Nevada) 1 Feb. 3/1 The authorities have a big crowd of ‘vags’ spotted, and are determined to make them travel. 1877T. E. Argles Pilgrim ii. 21 She had got three months ‘on the vag’ for making a sleeping place of a prominent doorstep. 1919[see hum n.2 2]. 1931‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route 189 He's pulled for a vag, his excuse won't do. ‘Thirty days,’ said the judge. 1959K. S. Prichard N'Goola 148 Was you on the game, love? Or did they get you on the vag? 1963H. Garner in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 41 Who would listen to a harvest stiff in the middle of the tobacco country? I'd end up on the wrong end of a vag charge myself. 1965X. Herbert Larger than Life 40 ‘We got a prisoner, eh?’ The servant grunted. ‘Just a vag.’ 1976‘Trevanian’ Main (1977) vi. 122 Either we go right now..or you start ten days of a vag charge.
▪ III. vag, v. Austral. and N. Amer. slang.|væg|
[f. prec.]
trans. To charge with vagrancy.
1876L. Hearn in Cincinnati Commercial 27 Aug. 6/3 If you keep on this way, Dolly,..I'll ‘vag’ you. 1891C. Roberts Adrift Amer. 169, I was arrested as a vagrant. As the popular expression went, I got ‘vagged’. 1908W. G. Davenport Butte & Montana 46 If the Kalispel police had done their duty she would have been ‘vagged’ years ago. 1930Bulletin (Sydney) 9 July 28 We can't have the public's mind polluted by abusive language. You're vagged. 1953K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xxi. 203 If you have no visible means of support you can be vagged. 1975B. Garfield Death Sentence v. 31 The cops go right on vagging prostitutes and shaking down store⁓keepers.
▪ IV. vag
dial. var. fag v.2; obs. Sc. f. wage n. |