regag

English

Etymology

re- +‎ gag

Verb

regag (third-person singular simple present regags, present participle regagging, simple past and past participle regagged)

  1. to put a gag back into someone's mouth.
    • 1974, Mendal W. Johnson, Let's go play at the Adams, page 215:
      "Fingerprints. I'll have to throw this away with the stuff that gets burnt. And anyhow we have to regag her."
    • 2007, Jim DeFelice, Leopards Kill, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 220:
      I had half a mind to leave him like that, and as soon as he started offering excuses I threatened to regag him.
    • 2012, Donna Jo Napoli, Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 131:
      But when it comes time to regag her, she snaps her head around and spits and hisses like a mad thing.

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