When I visited Pittsburgh, I bought an oval sticker that read “JAG OFF” and affixed it to my computer, where it remained until I accidentally tore it off, like the jagoff that I am. And Pittsburghers display the word on all sorts of tchotchkes: towels, mugs, t-shirts. The Pittsburgh band The Jaggerz, famous for the song “The Rapper,” took their name from the word at jagoff’s root. “Jagoff” originated in Pittsburgh, whose speech has Scots-Irish roots, and is a cornerstone of the abrasive dialect known as Pittsburghese or Yinzer. As far as I know, the word is only used in Chicago and in Pittsburgh, two cities with blue-collar, steel-making roots. Of course, being the Biggest Jagoff in Chicago may make you the Biggest Jagoff on the Planet. He wants to be the Biggest Jagoff on the Planet.” As Lumpen predicted, “It’s not enough for Rahm to be the Biggest Jagoff in Chicago. All those Jagoffs ended up going to prison, where some of them formed white supremacist gangs behind bars.Ī few years ago, the Chicago-based magazine Lumpen published a special issue entitled “A Field Guide to Chicago Jagoffs.” The list included Saul Bellow, the State Street Preacher, and former mayor Rahm Emanuel, who ran as a jagoff, was elected as a jagoff, served as a jagoff, and is now getting paid by ABC News to act as its House Jagoff, throwing wet blankets on liberal aspirations such as universal health care. Stone Nation were bused there from the South Side. In the 1960s, an Edgewater street gang changed its name from the Thorndale Jarvis Organization to the Thorndale Jagoffs after reading a newspaper article in which a police officer called them “a bunch of jagoffs.” (See, you can print “jagoff” in the paper.) The TJOs caused mayhem at Senn High School in the early 1970s when black students belonging to the Black P. The word also has a deep history in Chicago. It's no more offensive than “jerk” or “dunderhead.” Jagoff is derived from the Scots-Irish word “jag,” which means “thorn” or “to be pricked.” Which is exactly what a jagoff is: a thorn in your side, a person who won’t stop needling you.
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