dagga
- noun
- NSFW
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dagga
- Many people in South Africa choose to smoke dagga instead of tobacco.
- smoke dagga
Examples
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Have you smoked dagga on more than one day in the past month? 238 8 (3.4) 10,471 953 (9.1)
Academic text (2013) -
Maybe I should go and smoke some dagga with the zulus in town.
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To assess lifetime history of substance use, participants indicated whether they had ever used alcohol, dagga (marijuana), or mandrax (a sedative).
Academic text (2005) -
Fewer learners in this study smoked dagga on more than one day in the past month (3.4%), as opposed to the 9.1% found in the SAYRBS.
Academic text (2013) -
He was caught smoking dagga at a party last Saturday.
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The police confiscated a large quantity of dagga during the raid.
Synonyms
221
9.9
A drug people smoke to feel relaxed or high
211
9.1
A drug made from a plant that people smoke to relax
49
4.6
A plant whose dried flowers and leaves are used as a drug, often smoked to make you feel high
29
9.5
A slang word for marijuana used as a drug
8
8.5
Dried marijuana leaves and flowers used as a drug
A strong-smelling form of marijuana used for pleasure
Compounds
- NSFW
A South African plant with bright orange flowers whose leaves are sometimes smoked like tobacco
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dagga likely comes from a Khoikhoi word dacha meaning 'tobacco' that early settlers in South Africa learned. So dagga became the name for smokeable plants like cannabis, which is why the word means the herb people smoke.