Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unwholesome; decaying; caggy: as, cagmag meat; hence, inferior: as, cagmag wares.
- noun A tough old goose.
- noun Unwholesome or loathsome meat; offal.
- noun An inferior kind of sheep.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect A tough old
goose . - noun UK, dialect, by extension Coarse, bad food of any kind.
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Examples
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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.
The Martian George Du Maurier 1865
mollusque commented on the word cagmag
Rotten meat; offal; anything worthless.
November 23, 2007
bilby commented on the word cagmag
"The late Sir Nicholas Fairbairn escaped rebuke, but not disdain, by describing women MPs as 'mostly hideous — they have no fragrance and I dislike women who deny their femininity. They are just cagmags, scrub heaps, old tattles.'"
- BBC News, 8 Dec. 2005.
June 26, 2009