ragg

ragg (uncountable)

1. (archaic) ragstone

• Garg

From Old Norse rǫgg. Akin to English rag.

• IPA^(key): /rɑɡː/

ragg n (definite singular ragget, uncountable)

1. coarse fur, bristles (hair of an animal, especially unordered, wild, rugged, shaggy hair)

• raggete

• “ragg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse rǫgg, from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz (“coarse, rough”).

Same as Danish rag, Icelandic rogg, Norwegian ragg, Old English adjective raggig and English noun rag, Icelandic rýja (“to rip the wool from sheep, to shear”), Latin ruo (“to rip, dig”) and rutrum (“a shovel”). In older times, wool was not cut or shorn from sheep, but ripped or torn off.

ragg c

1. coarse fur, bristles (hair of an animal, especially unordered, wild, rugged, shaggy hair)

   resa ragg (also: resa borst, ragga till)

   to bristle

• raggen
• raggig
• raggmunk
• raggsocka

Deverbal from ragga.

ragg n

1. (colloquial) a person one has (successfully) hit on, a hookup, pickup

   att få ett ragg

   to successfully pick someone up

   hans senaste ragg

   his latest hookup

2. (colloquial) an instance of hitting on someone, a pickup

   ett bra ragg

   a good way of hitting on someone

• ragga
• raggare

• ragg in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ragg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ragg in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• ragg in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)