stag
An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
Other meanings
A male turkey: a turkeycock.
An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
A kind of
- red deer
Related words
- shag
- stagette
- stagger
- staggy
- staghorn
- staghound
- staghunt
- staghunter
- staghunting
- staglike
- stagskin
- stagworm
Word history
From Old Norse "steggi".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “stag” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.