/ · 1894 Brewer’s · T · Tag Rag, and Bobtail
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The vulgus ignobilë. A “tag” is a doe in the second year of her age; a “rag,” a herd of deer at rutting time; “bobtail,” a fawn just weaned.
⁂ According to Halliwell, a sheep of the first year is called a tag. Tag is sometimes written shag.
“It will swallow us all up, ships and men, shag, rag, and bobtail.”—Rabelais: Pantagruel, iv. 33.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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