agg

agg (not comparable)

1. Clipping of aggravated.

agg (uncountable)

1. (sports) Clipping of aggregate (“the total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores”).

agg (third-person singular simple present aggs, present participle agging, simple past and past participle agged)

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of egg (“encourage”).
   • 1923, Lucy S. Furman, The Quare Women: A Story of the Kentucky Mountains, page 38:

     And as for Cynthy, his maw, she won't hardly speak to me; and, though she is my offspring, is the bitter-heartedest and keen-tonguedest woman hit ever was my lot to meet up with. But for her agging him on, hit is my belief Fulty never would [do anything].

• GAG, gag

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒɡː]

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡː

From Proto-Uralic *soŋkɜ (“old, to grow old”).^[1][2]

agg (not comparable)

1. (literary) very old, aged

   See synonyms at öreg.

agg (plural aggok)

1. old man

Same word as above. *soŋ(k)ɜ could have been both a noun and a verb, even if it has no verbal cognates. But it was influenced by aggódik (“to worry”).

• aggik

agg

1. (intransitive, dialectal) to shrivel, shrink, diminish (to become smaller, denser, or more compact)
2. (intransitive, poetic) to worry, to be anxious
3. (intransitive, dated) to age, grow old

See also its conjugation table at E-Szókincs.

(With verbal prefixes):

• aggat (“to hang, append, attach [multiple things]”) (related to akaszt)

• (very old): agg in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (to shrink, to worry, to age): agg in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• agg in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

From Old Norse aga (“to threaten”), from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“fear, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be depressed, afraid”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἄχος (ákhos, “distress, pain”), English ey and awe.

• IPA^(key): /ɑɡː/

agg n (definite singular agget, uncountable)

1. enmity, ill will (often implying that the enmity is hidden)

• “agg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ag

Derived from Old Norse eggja.

(Shetland) agg (third-person singular simple present aggs, present participle aggin, simple past agged, past participle agged)

1. to drive towards or against the shore
2. to be driven shorewards
3. to irritate (by teasing)

• “agg, v.1 tr. and intr.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
• Eagle, Andy, editor (2025), “agg”, in The Online Scots Dictionary‎^[1]

From Old Norse aga (“to threaten”), from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“fear, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be depressed, afraid”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἄχος (ákhos, “distress, pain”), English ey and awe.

agg n

1. grudge, resentment, ill will

   hysa agg mot någon

   have a grudge against someone

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