daggy

English

Etymology

dag +‎ -y

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdæɡi/
    Rhymes: -æɡi

Adjective

daggy (comparative daggier or more daggy, superlative daggiest or most daggy)

  1. (Australian slang) Uncool, unfashionable, but comfortably so.
    • 2006, Debra Byrne, Not Quite Ripe: A Memoir‎, page 49:
      We wore hippie clothes, looking more daggy than cool.
    • 2008, Bella Vendramini, Biting the Big Apple: A Memoir of Life, Love (okay and Sex) in New York City, unnumbered page,
      I began to feel even more daggy when Bianca swanned me around to meet her sexy, skinny and beautiful friends.
    • 2011, Joanne Van Os, The Secret of the Lonely Isles‎, page 1:
      The daggiest house in the Bay, that was how people talked about the Isherwood House.
    • 2011, Chris Buch, Hello Sunshine: A Blitz Kid's Journey to the Sunshine State‎, page 288:
      Actually this wasn′t too bad as a jazz venue, being in the daggiest pub in the daggiest part of Capalaba which, in 2004 was still a pretty daggy suburb.
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