sarge

sarge

See also: Sarge and Särge

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)dʒ
• Homophone: sarg

Etymology 1

Shortened from sergeant.

Noun

sarge (plural sarges)

1. (colloquial) 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.

Translations

colloquial form of sergeant

Czech: serža m

Finnish: kessu (fi)

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)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• Agers, GRASE, Regas, SEGRA, Segar, agers, gaser, gears, rages, regas, sager, segar

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Italian

Noun

sarge f

1. plural of sargia

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Latin

Noun

sarge

1. vocative singular of sargus

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *sarica, from Latin sērica.

Noun

sarge f (plural sarges)

1. (Jersey) serge