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First attested in late Middle English; a syncopic form of daywork, developed through the series of forms: daywork → daywerk → daywark → dawark → *da’ark → dark → darg.
- dawerk, dawark [15th century]
- daurk [18th century]
- daark, dark, darrak, darroch, dargue, daurg [19th century]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: därg, IPA(key): /dɑːɡ/
- Rhymes: -ɑːɡ
darg (plural dargs)
- (in Scotland and northern English dialects) A day's work.
- (in Scotland and northern English dialects) A defined quantity or amount of work, or of the product of work, done in a certain time or at a certain rate of payment; a task.
- “Darg” listed on page 33 of volume III (D–E), § i (D) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1897]
- “darg” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]
The ŏ of dog (dŏg) has merged with ä in many American dialects.
darg (plural dargs)
Alteration of dark, a contraction of dawark, daywerk ‘day's work’.
darg (plural dargs)
- a day's work (especially agricultural labour)
- an amount or number of something produced in a day