See dag in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2004, Mette Vaarst, Animal health and welfare in organic agriculture, page 323:",
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"(food) Ellipsis of dag sandwich."
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},
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}
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"word": "dog"
}
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"ref": "2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch, quoted in, Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino, Translation and Localisation in Video Games: Making Entertainment Software Global, Routledge →ISBN, page 68",
"text": "Mickey: Dags! D' ya like dags?"
},
{
"ref": "2014, John P Brady, Back to the Gaff, Roadside Fiction, →ISBN, page 131:",
"text": "There it was again, that old Gaelic verb pronounced 'scriss,' that those involved in fighting talk apparently exuded on occasion. It could have been 'D'ya wanna buy a dag?' it was all the same.",
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}
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"(chiefly Ireland) Pronunciation spelling of dog."
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