cagmag

/ ˈkæɡˌmæɡ /

adjective

1. done shoddily; left incomplete

verb

1. to chat idly; gossip

Word History and Origins

Origin of cagmag¹

C18: of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

I mind theer wur a crop o' "Read Comic Cagmag" as lingered on years arter the paper itself.

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It was a Saturday night, and the swarming populations of the slums were turning out in force; the battered women in rusty black had begun to paw the lumps of cagmag, and others gloated over unwholesome cabbages, and there was a brisk demand for four-ale.

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I mind theer wur a crop o' "Read Comic Cagmag" as lingered on years arter the paper itself.

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One night Barty and I dined at a little cagmag he used to frequent, where he fared well—so he said—for a shilling, which included a glass of stout.

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Mamma, said she, Tommy Careless was flogged for tearing his book, Jackey Fidget because he was a naughty boy and would not sit still, Polly Giddybrains, for losing her needle and thread paper, and, Lord bless me! my ma'am was so cross, that she was going to put the nasty fool's cap on my head, only for miscalling the first word in my lesson."—"In short she was such a notorious telltale, that she was soon dignified by her school fellows with the honourable appellation of Dolly Cagmag.

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