Noun: stag
Sample Sentences
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The city recently carried out a deer census, determining there are 313 stags (males), 798 does (females) and 214 fawns (babies) in Nara Park. [2024 July 23, Lilit Marcus, “Japan may be sick of mass tourism. But the deer in this ancient UNESCO-listed city love it”, in CNN, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2024:]
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a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar
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The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.
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The stag gets a thrill from watching his vixen have sex with another man. [2018 June 1, Holly O'Mahony, Lollie Barr, “‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding”, in The Sun, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2018:]
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We had two disturbers of the harmony of the ship; I mean two stags or informers, one named Robert Wilson, the other John Hewit, from the north of Ireland. [1838, [Joseph Holt], edited by T. Crofton Croker, Memoirs of Joseph Holt, General of the Irish Rebels, in 1798, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, page 52:]
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Between shifts on stag or manning the radio, we grabbed a few hours sleep. [2000, Richard Tomlinson, The big breach: from top secret to maximum security, page 31:]
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Three days were spent on standby or patrols and a fourth day on guard, with at least eight hours on stag. [2012, Max Benitz, Six Months Without Sundays: The Scots Guards in Afghanistan:]
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Members of the genus Pasimachus […] can be confused with stag beetles […] but stags have elbowed antennae. [2007, Eric R. Eaton, Kenn Kaufman, Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America, page 132:]
Nouns inflected like stag
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and possibly 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”). Doublet of steg (“gander”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon. See: Middle English Nouns '
stagge', Old English Nouns '
stagga', Old Norse Nouns '
steggi', Icelandic Nouns '
steggi'.
Verbs referencing "stag"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
stegg, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
stegg.