WTF? "Jag" for "injection"!

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I had never heard the word "jag" used to mean jab or injection until on here a few days ago. Since then I've seen it pop up time and time again. It's beginning to really irritate me. Is it some kind of regional variation on "jab" or are people just getting it wrong?

It IS far more descriptive of what happens though isn't it? Like , "you are just going to feel something very small and sharp puncture your skin" rather than something large and blunt pat rather firmly against you. Still felt silly when I first heard it though - as if the health professionals weren't joining in with the deceit of what an injection actually was and that was a suprise in itself.

Jag is so more descriptive. "Injection" well it could be anything. Jag is harsh and sore

Definitely a Scottish thing- its a jag to us!

I say "shot". Bet that makes you cringe

Aitch yes they do say Flu Jag on the adverts up here.

I love the word jaggy

Qeefer I think the word you seek is "choob"
It's jag - I'm 44 and I've had jags all my life.

Never heard of it.

Of course, we speak actual English down here in London

'Jab' is just Wrong. It irks me.
'Jag' is Correct as in 'jaggy'.

the jag
it's the flu jag
you get your holiday jags

it's a great word onomateowhatsit

I'm amused by the irritation - "what, some people don't speak like MEEE? How can this be allowed in this day and age?"

I think we should lay on the Scottish grammar with a trowel. Anyone's hair need washed tonight?

I have jags. Scottish, definitely.
But my favourite Scottish word to fling into a conversation is plank. As in "where have you planked the keys?". No Angle equivalent to that one, imho.
(I like to ask about flittings too).

Ooh - I've not come across "planked", Novus - that's a new one on me.

I only no 'plank' as in 'thick as a plank'

Been in Scotland 18 years and never heard "planked" used like that. Flittings yes, planked no.

yup I grew up getting my jags
great word

as well as skelf
was always getting skelfs as a child

I also like the description of a child as "hingy", meaning "acting poorly, listless". I am from the east of Scotland and had never heard that until I moved west, but I immediately knew what it meant!

yy jags here too.

Yule, also peelywally and wabbit

I'd always use hingy for children, but wabbit for adults. Not quite sure why...

jags here in Ireland too, and anything prickly/stingy is jaggy

so an injection would be called a jag
a nettle would be described as jaggy

jags here in NI too, I was a martyr to skelfs as a child too I also had a jam piece for my dinner tonight, dd (5) was most unimpressed, asked me was I not going to cut that huge piece of bread in half!! Mind you she has ideas above her station I blame her dad!!

My dad used to rub his stubble on my face when I was wee, and called it "jaggies".

jam piece! love it! haven't hear that in years

Grew up in Scotland and know all these words including plank. 'aye jist plank it there'. TBH the expression jag does annoy me, but then so does jab. Prefer injection.

My grannie used to knock on my bedroom door and call "Are you deshabilly?" before coming in. It wasn't until I started learning French at high school that I realised where that came from!
Maybe something my granda picked up in France after D-Day

I knew it as a "jeely piece". Usually stored in a "piece box" (and washed down with Irn Bru of course)