daggy

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1. AustraliaslangUncool, unfashionable, but comfortably so.

   We wore hippie clothes, looking more daggy than cool.

   2006, Debra Byrne, Not Quite Ripe: A Memoir, page 49

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   "But I remember everything about that day. What everyone was wearing, all the daggy things people said in the car on the way into town. The smell of stubble, upholstery. The taste of tomato in my throat from lunch."

   2004, Tim Winton, “Abbreviation”, in The Turning, UK Paperback edition, Picador, page 27

   I began to feel even more daggy when Bianca swanned me around to meet her sexy, skinny and beautiful friends.

   2008, Bella Vendramini, Biting the Big Apple: A Memoir of Life, Love (okay and Sex) in New York City, unnumbered page

   The daggiest house in the Bay, that was how people talked about the Isherwood House.

   2011, Joanne Van Os, The Secret of the Lonely Isles, page 1

   Actually this wasn′t too bad as a jazz venue, being in the daggiest pub in the daggiest part of Capalaba which, in 2004 was still a pretty daggy suburb.

   2011, Chris Buch, Hello Sunshine: A Blitz Kid's Journey to the Sunshine State, page 288

   “Yeah, I know, I-I was starting to like her too, even though she said I dress "daggy," whatever that means.”

   2024 August 12, Scott Gallopo, “The Solar Opposites Do An Intervention” (15:32 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 5, episode 7, spoken by Gavin (Clancy Brown)