snag

Etymology 1
From earlier, from , , from (compare 🇨🇬), perhaps ultimately from a derivative of , , variations of.

Compare 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬. Also see 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
 * 2) A dead tree that remains standing.
 * 3) A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
 * 4)  Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
 * 5) A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
 * 6)  A problem or difficulty with something.
 * 7) A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
 * 8) One of the secondary branches of an antler.
 * 1) A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
 * 2)  A problem or difficulty with something.
 * 3) A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
 * 4) One of the secondary branches of an antler.
 * 1) A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
 * 2) One of the secondary branches of an antler.
 * 1) A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
 * 2) One of the secondary branches of an antler.
 * 1) A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
 * 2) One of the secondary branches of an antler.

Translations

 * Finnish: oksantynkä
 * French: ,
 * German: Aststumpf, Aststummel
 * Hungarian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: tylec,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: suk


 * Bulgarian: сухо дърво
 * Ingrian: hako
 * Italian: albero morto in piedi
 * Spanish: árbol muerto en pie


 * Belarusian: корч, карча́жына, карча́к
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Maori: taitā
 * Russian: ,
 * Ukrainian: корч


 * Hungarian: kiálló (hegyes) rész,
 * Maori: kātara
 * Slovak: hrboľ, výčnelok


 * Bulgarian: стърчащ/счупен зъб
 * Finnish: ulkoneva hammas
 * French:
 * German:


 * Bulgarian: неочаквано препятствие
 * Czech:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 些細なトラブル
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ulempe
 * Old English: wirn/wearn, hremmung
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: duilgheadas, staing
 * Slovak: zádrheľ
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, , ,


 * Bulgarian: изваден конец
 * Finnish: langanpää
 * German: Fadenzieher
 * Japanese: ほつれ


 * French:
 * Polish: odrostek

Verb

 * 1) To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
 * 2) To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
 * 3)  To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
 * 4)  To obtain or pick up.
 * 5)  To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
 * 6)  To have noncommittal sexual relations.
 * 1)  To obtain or pick up.
 * 2)  To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
 * 3)  To have noncommittal sexual relations.
 * 1)  To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
 * 2)  To have noncommittal sexual relations.
 * 1)  To have noncommittal sexual relations.
 * 1)  To have noncommittal sexual relations.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: закачам се
 * Czech:, zachytit se, natrhnout, natrhnout se, , roztrhnout se, zatrhnout
 * Dutch:
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Japanese:, , 破ける
 * Polish:


 * Japanese: さびく, さっかける,
 * Maori: hiwi


 * German: sich schnappen,
 * Ukrainian: перехо́плювати, перехопи́ти

Etymology 2
The suggests that snag as slang for "sausage" most likely derives from the earlier British slang for "light meal", although it makes no comment on how it came to be specifically applied to sausages.Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms The word's use in football slang originates as a shortening of "sausage roll", rhyming slang for "goal", to sausage, and hence, by synonymy, snag.

Noun

 * 1)  A light meal.
 * 2)  A sausage.
 * 3)  A goal.
 * 4) * 2003, Greg Baum, "Silver anniversary of a goal achieved", The Age
 * "It just kept coming down and I just kept putting them through the middle," he said. "I got an opportunity, and I kicked a few snags."
 * 1)  A goal.
 * 2) * 2003, Greg Baum, "Silver anniversary of a goal achieved", The Age
 * "It just kept coming down and I just kept putting them through the middle," he said. "I got an opportunity, and I kicked a few snags."
 * "It just kept coming down and I just kept putting them through the middle," he said. "I got an opportunity, and I kicked a few snags."

Translations

 * Finnish: skäägä
 * Russian:

Noun

 * 1) A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).

Noun

 * 1) a catch hesitation in voice, gasp, sob
 * 2) a lull period of rest

Etymology 2
Probably related to 🇨🇬, also "wood-pecker."

Noun

 * 1) a treecreeper bird of the family
 * 2) goby
 * 1) goby

Noun

 * 1) sharp knock sound