sarge
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)dʒ
- Homophone: sarg
Etymology 1
Shortened from sergeant.
Usage notes
- Like mom, dad, or doctor, Sarge can function either as a title, a simple shortening of "sergeant," or a substitute name for the bearer of that title, e.g. Sarge, a character from the American comic strip Beetle Bailey.
Etymology 2
Coined by Ross Jeffries, after his cat Sarge.
Verb
sarge (third-person singular simple present sarges, present participle sarging, simple past and past participle sarged)
- (seduction community) to go out and engage women in order to pick them up
- 2010, Charlotte Allen, The New Dating Game:
- Jeffries pioneered the coinage of distinctive seduction lingo—his most widely used neologism: “sarging,” named after his cat Sarge and meaning trolling the bars for desirable women—as well as the use of the Internet.
- 2010, Charlotte Allen, The New Dating Game:
Italian
Latin
Norman
Etymology
From Old French [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *sarica, from Latin sērica.
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