darg

Meaning

Noun

• A day's work.
• A defined quantity or amount of work, or of the product of work, done in a certain time or at a certain rate of payment; a task.

Origin

• First attested in late Middle English; a syncopic form of daywork, developed through the series of forms: daywork → daywerk → daywark → dawark → *da’ark → dark → darg.
• The of dog () has merged with in many American dialects.