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4-letter words (3 found)

GALS,LAGS,SLAG,

3-letter words (8 found)

AGS,ALS,GAL,GAS,LAG,LAS,SAG,SAL,

2-letter words (4 found)

AG,AL,AS,LA,

You can make 15 words from slag according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of slag

slag lsag salg aslg lasg alsg slga lsga sgla gsla lgsa glsa sagl asgl sgal gsal agsl gasl lags algs lgas glas agls gals

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Definitions and meaning of slag

slag

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German slagge, slaggen (“slag, dross”), from Old Saxon *slaggo, from Proto-West Germanic *slaggō, from Proto-Germanic *slaggô, from Proto-Germanic *slagōną (“to strike”) + *-gô (diminutive suffix). Compare Middle Low German slāgen (“to strike”), since originally the splinters struck off from the metal by hammering, from *slagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *slagōn. Compare also Old Saxon slegi, from Proto-West Germanic *slagi.

See also Dutch slak, German Schlacke, Swedish slagg; also compare English slay.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slæɡ/
  • Rhymes: -æɡ

Noun

slag (countable and uncountable, plural slags)

  1. Waste material from a mine.
  2. Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
    • 2006, Melisa W. Lai, Michele Burns Ewald, Chapter 95: Silver, Martin J. Wonsiewicz, Karen G. Edmonson, Peter J. Boyle (editors), Goldfrank′s Toxicologic Emergencies, 8th Edition, page 1358,
      In Asia Minor and on islands in the Aegean Sea, dumps of slag (scum formed by molten metal surface oxidation) demonstrate that silver was being separated from lead as early as 5000 BC.
  3. Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
    Synonyms: dross, recrement, scoria
  4. Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
  5. Scoria associated with a volcano.
  6. (UK, Ireland, slang, derogatory) A prostitute or promiscuous woman; a slut.
    • 1984, Tristan Jones, Heart of Oak, 1997, paperback edition, page 260,
      We never talked about that, of course; we talked about how we could find a woman in the Dilly, and if the Yanks had taken them all, how we could always resort to the peroxided older slags who hung out around the side doors to Waterloo station and did knee tremblers for the Yanks.
    • 2002, Josephine Cox, The Woman Who Left, 2012, ebook, unnumbered page,
      ‘Slag! Wait till I tell Jacob what we′ve been doing – and I will, you mark my words! He′ll want nowt to do with you then, will he, eh? He′ll see you for what you really are. A cheap and nasty little bitch!’
  7. (UK, Ireland, derogatory, dated) A coward.
  8. (UK, Ireland, chiefly Cockney, derogatory) A contemptible person, a scumbag.
    • 1996, Sarah Kane, Phaedra′s Love, Scene 8, 2001, Sarah Kane: Complete Plays, page 100,
      Kill him. Kill the royal slag.
    • 2012, Danny Dyer, tweet, quoted by Alexis Petridis, "Danny Dyer: why them 9/11 slags are freaking his nut", The Guardian
      Can't believe it's been nearly 11 years since them slags smashed into the twin towers

Synonyms

  • (woman with loose sexual morals): see Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • clinker

Verb

slag (third-person singular simple present slags, present participle slagging, simple past and past participle slagged)

  1. (transitive) To produce slag.
  2. (intransitive) To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
  3. (transitive) To reduce to slag.
  4. (transitive, slang) To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
    Synonym: slag off
  5. (transitive, Ireland, slang) To make fun of; to take the piss (tease, ridicule or mock).
  6. (intransitive, Australia, slang) To spit.

Derived terms

Translations

References

  • “slag”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “slag”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • GALS, Glas, LGAs, gals, lags

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse slag, slagr from Proto-Germanic *slagą, *slagiz, cognate with German Schlag.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slaːˀɣ/, [ˈsl̥æˀj], [ˈsl̥æˀ], (in the sense “game” and some fixed expressions) IPA(key): /slaɣ/, [ˈsl̥ɑw]

Noun

slag n (singular definite slaget, plural indefinite slag)

  1. A hit, punch
  2. A beat
  3. A battle (between two armies or, metaphorically two competing parties)
  4. A game.

Derived terms

References

  • “slag” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch slach, from Old Dutch slag, from Proto-West Germanic *slagi, from Proto-Germanic *slagiz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slɑx/
  • Hyphenation: slag
  • Rhymes: -ɑx

Noun

slag m (plural slagen, diminutive slagje n)

  1. A blow, knock, strike
  2. A stroke, limb movement; a style of movement, notably style of swimming
  3. A twist, turn
  4. A beat, pulsation
  5. A stroke, blow, hit, physical impact
  6. A count, occurrence; the striking of a clock
  7. A battle, violent confrontation
  8. (ball sports) A strike, hit
    Antonym: wijd
  9. A strike, fast move

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Negerhollands: slaa

Noun

slag n (plural slagen, diminutive slagje n)

  1. A kind, type, sort.
  2. A parcel, plot, premise (stretch of land).

Anagrams

  • glas

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse slag, from Proto-Germanic *slagiz (“hit, blow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slɛaː/

Noun

slag n (genitive singular slags, plural sløg)

  1. A hit; punch.
  2. (medicine) A cardiac stroke.
  3. A battle between two armies, navies or air forces
  4. A kind; sort.
  5. (biology, taxonomy) A species.

Declension

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Related terms

References

  • Lívfrøðilig frøðinevni (Jens-Kjeld Jensen & Marjun A. Simonsen) (nomenclature)
  • Øktur føroyskur frøðinevnalisti (Jens-Kjeld Jensen) (Extended List of Nomenclature)

Hungarian

Alternative forms

  • slág

Etymology

First attested in 1938. From German Schlauch, from Middle High German slūch (“slough, skin shed by a snake”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃlɒɡ]
  • Hyphenation: slag
  • Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

slag (plural slagok)

  1. hose, tube (a flexible tube conveying water or other fluid)
    Synonyms: tömlő, öntözőcső

Declension

References

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse slag, from Proto-Germanic *slagiz (“hit, blow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stlaːɣ/
  • Rhymes: -aːɣ

Noun

slag n (genitive singular slags, nominative plural slög)

  1. A beat, stroke, blow (an act of hitting, beating, striking).
  2. (music) A beat.

Declension

Derived terms

  • slegill

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse slag, and slagr (sense 4).

Noun

slag n (definite singular slaget, indefinite plural slag, definite plural slaga or slagene)

  1. A hit; punch.
  2. (medicine) A cardiac stroke.
  3. A battle between two armies, navies or air forces.
  4. A kind; sort.

Derived terms

References

  • “slag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʂlɑːɡ/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse slag.

Noun

slag n (definite singular slaget, indefinite plural slag, definite plural slaga)

  1. a blow, a strike, a punch.
    Boksaren traff med eit hardt slag. ― The boxer landed a hard punch.
  2. a battle.
    Napoleon tapte slaget ved Waterloo. ― Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo.
  3. (medicine) a stroke
    Tanta mi er på sjukehus etter å ha fått slag. ― My aunt is in hospital after having a stroke.
  4. (nautical) a bilge
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse slagr.

Noun

slag n (definite singular slaget, indefinite plural slag, definite plural slaga)

  1. A type, a kind, a sort.
    Eg likar alle slag blomar. ― I like all kinds of flowers.
Derived terms

References

  • “slag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • lags

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse slag, from Proto-Germanic *slagiz (“hit, blow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slɑːɡ/

Noun

slag n

  1. A hit; punch.
  2. A hit of a ball by a bat or a racket.
  3. A battle between two armies, navies or air forces
    Synonyms: fältslag, batalj, strid
  4. A stroke; the striking of a clock
    Klockan slog just tre slag. ― The clock just struck three strokes.
  5. stroke; the time when a clock strikes
  6. (medicine) stroke; a loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
    Synonyms: stroke, slaganfall
  8. A kind; sort.
    Synonym: sort
  9. A while; moment; a short period of time.
    Synonym: stund
  10. A fold on the legs of a pair of trousers, where about an inch of the leg is folded upwards.
  11. A lapel

Usage notes

The usage notes for sort also apply for (sense 7) of slag (except with ett traditionally being considered correct).

Declension

Derived terms

  • hålslag
  • få slag

Descendants

  • → Finnish: laaki
  • → Finnish: slaagi

See also

  • käftsmäll (“punch in the mouth”)
  • smocka (“punch”)
  • snyting (“punch to the face”)
  • tjottablängare (“hard punch”)

References

  • slag in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • slag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • slag in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

  • algs, glas, lags

Source: wiktionary.org