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[Baboonboy]

7d Botched job-dialect term -A-/M-G (3,3) last one to get!

[JRB]

I have the same problem (and the same letters)!

[Stretts]

think it is BAD MUG - just trying to prove it though

[Stretts]

cant prove that it is BAD MUG - can anoyone else agree or otherwise?

[gardenknowin]

I too am perplexed - have found Hag-smash in Cassel's Dict of Slang (Ulster sl. for botched job) Could it be a variant thereof ? Wonder where Mr Mepham found it?

[gardenknowin]

Ahhh! think I might have it ! From same source CAGMAG -"anything second-rate" "rubbish".......I wonder???

[JRB]

Cag mag is evidently black country dialect for rotting meat - if you stretch it a bit?????

[lloyd1e]

CAG MAG seems to be everywhere.  I've just found it on a website about Victorian London.  It says it means bad/foul meat.  As you've said - if we stretch the meaning a bit...!

[gardenknowin]

The thought of all we frustrated wordsmiths"stretching" rotten meat is a mind-boggling way to use up Saturday!!!

[gardenknowin]

Reckon it's cag mag - googling (out of a mere 490,000 sites!) uses the word "botch" - maybe compiler comes from Lincs?

[gardenknowin]

oops, sorry, Mr M, I meant Bucks !!

[volvoian]

Cassell dictionary of slang quotes cagmag (one word) as 'anything valueless or second rate'  'refuse, rubbish, odds and ends.  I am going for it!!

[JRB]

Roll on next Saturday when we find out if we are right!

[JRB]

MSN Encarta says cagmag means "poorly done" Yippee

[Minoru]

Collins  English Dictionary defines Cagmag (one word) as done shoddily; left incomplete.  A word of Middle English dialect.

This seems to be the answer.

[Baboonboy]

Blimey. Thanks to all. Just come in from shopping to find all this. Brilliant!!

[des390]

I have to admit I have never heard the expression but I am glad that JRB found it in Encarta. All I found was bad meat.... Still, I can stop looking now!