stag

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable) An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
2. (Scotland, countable) A young horse (colt or filly).
3. (British, countable, uncountable) A male turkey: a turkeycock.
4. (broadly, countable, obsolete) A romping girl; a tomboy.
5. (countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
6. (countable) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
7. (countable) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
8. (attributive, countable, usually) An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
9. (countable) A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
10. (countable, slang) An informer.
11. (UK, slang, uncountable) Guard duty.
12. (countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
13. (countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.

Verb

1. (British, intransitive) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
2. (transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.

Adv

Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.

Synonyms

deer

🦌

hart

buck

snoop

sleuth

spy

informer

denounce

tell on

rat

🐀

stag-party

betray

doe

give away

shit

💩

shop

snitch

grass

a kind of deer

cloud

☁️

detect

dust

fill in

overshadow

reindeer

🦌

roe

roebuck

shade

shadow

speculate

stag party

steer

tag

shade off

antelope

Translations

venado

🦌

Hirsch

🦌

cervo

🦌

cerf

🦌

ciervo

🦌

mannetjeshert

veado

🦌

حارس

💂

hertenbok

ايل

حراسة

cervus

🦌

faction

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stæɡ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: stagge

Inherited from Old English: stagga

Cognate with Icelandic: steggi

In summary

From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.