Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. describing anus hairs clogged with small pieces of excrement.

1936		Worker (Brisbane) 21 Apr. 8/1: [headline] Muddy, Daggy and Maggoty Sheep.
1940		Examiner (Launceston, Tas.) 25 May 5/7: Dirty. or daggy sheep should be cleaned up to prevent fouling of the bath.
1952		G. Meek ‘Sheds That Banned The Singing Rousey’s Song’ Station Days in Maoriland 52: When you’re rolling up the fleeces, / Skirting off the daggy pieces.
1977		in K. Gilbert Living Black 299: I reckon I’ve got more power in a daggy old hair on me arse than any black power boy got in his whole body.

2. unfashionable, lacking grace.

1956		Tharunka (Kensington, NSW) 9 Apr. 7/4: We were cracking our necks to fill four tabloid pages [...] We had to put in some awfully daggy material.
1986		C. Bowles G’DAY 98: If clothes or decor are a bit tacky [...] they’re daggy.
1998		R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] Most wore daggy cardigans or V-neck jumpers with the elbows out [...] there was also a smattering of daggy jeans,.
1999		Observer Mag. 11 July 39: Even Australians think staying home to watch Neighbours is daggy.
2017		T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 7: smock. Even the word is daggy.

3. (also daggie) dirty; messy, unkempt.

1966		Canberra Times (ACT) 20 Aug. 9: A few days later the diary records that cigarettes were less promising material — ‘daggy fag-ends which we unrolled for the tobacco’.
1967		‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxiv 4/3: daggy: To be dirty.
1969		J. Hibberd Dimboola (2000) 104: Aggie, Aggie, face like a bum, dirty and daggie!
1976		D. Ireland Glass Canoe (1982) 198: I saw her in a pub at Tamworth, all daggy. Gone to pieces.
1986		T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 117: They look just as daggy as us.
1992		K. Lette Llama Parlour 90: I’d hoped to fall in love with someone daggy, someone who didn’t mind if you bit your nails and spat them across the room.
2006		P. Carey Theft 252: Marlene was dressed [...] in baggy daggy shorts.
2016		Facebook 15 July 🌐 It was right next to the watering hole where old mate shit his daks when this daggy, yobbo bugger came at him with an axe. No dramas tonight but, and I lit up a durry, thought about my hard yakka and headed to the dunny.
2021		C. Hammer Opal Country 77: Another day or two and he’ll look as daggy as any local.

4. amusing, eccentric.

1990		T. Winton Human Torpedo 36: He went to school with a great daggy smile on his face like he’d come half-stoned from the dentist’s.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl.