Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult. · A young horse (colt or filly). · A male turkey: a turkey-cock. · A romping girl; a tomboy.
Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.
To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks. · To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
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.
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