bag
English
Etymology
From Middle English bagge, borrowed from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”), related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰak- (compare Welsh baich (“load, bundle”), Ancient Greek βάσταγμα (bástagma, “load”)).
Pronunciation
- enPR: băg, IPA(key): /ˈbæɡ/
- (Southern England, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈbæːɡ/
- (New Zealand, some US dialects) IPA(key): /ˈbɛɡ/
- (Upper Midwestern US) IPA(key): /ˈbeɪɡ/
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- Rhymes: -æɡ
Noun
bag (plural bags)
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- Synonyms: (obsolete) poke, sack, tote
- A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags.
- Hyponyms: sack, pouch, tote, bindle, purse, backpack
- (colloquial) One's preference.
- Synonyms: cup of tea, thing; see also Thesaurus:predilection
- Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.
- 1976, Newton Thornburg, Cutter and Bone, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 250:
- And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing.
- (derogatory) An ugly woman.
- Synonyms: dog, hag
- (LGBT, slang, US, derogatory) A fellow gay man.[1]
- (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
- (baseball) First, second, or third base.
- He headed back to the bag.
- (preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- Synonym: multiset
- A bag of three apples could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Or, letting 'r' denote 'red apple' and 'g' denote 'green apple', then a bag of three red apples and two green apples could be denoted as {r,r,r,g,g}.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents
- the bag of a cow
- (now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 54, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:
- [H]e had once lost his bag, and a considerable quantity of hair, which had been cut off by some rascal in his passage through Ludgate, during the lord mayor's procession.
- 1774, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 1 December:
- He had on a suit of Manchester velvet, Lined with white satten, a Bag, lace Ruffles, and a very handsome sword which the King had given to him.
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- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
- (slang, vulgar) A scrotum.
- (UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- 2013, Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom, page 14:
- With gravel stuck to my cheek, I pulled myself back in the car, looked in the rearview mirror, and saw, looking back at me, a young man with a pale face and a purple bag under each eye. I looked pitiful […]
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- (slang) A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- (MLE, slang) £1000, a grand.
- 2017 May 2, Figure Flows ft. Purple (lyrics and music), “Money Right”, in Big Figures, from 1:18:
- Coulda got a bag last year
But now I get a bag for a verse
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- (informal) A large number or amount.
Derived terms
- airbag, air bag
- airline bag
- all that and a bag of chips
- all that and a bag of potato chips
- bag and baggage
- bag and band
- bag boy
- bagboy
- bag-carrier
- bag for life
- bagful
- baggage
- bagger
- baggy
- bag knot
- bag lady
- bagless
- bag lunch
- bag man
- bag nasty
- bag of antlers
- bag of bones
- bag of dicks
- bag of fruit
- bag of holding
- bag of mystery
- bag of nerves
- bag of rations
- bag of shells
- bag of tricks
- bag of waters
- bag of weasels
- bag of wind
- bag of words
- bag out
- bag people
- bag reef
- bag snatcher
- bag up
- ball bag
- banana bag
- bandolier bag
- barf bag
- barrel bag
- bathroom bag
- beanbag
- bean bag
- belly bag
- belt bag
- betel bag
- bin bag
- bin-bag
- binbag
- Birkin bag
- bivi bag
- black bag
- black-bag
- black bag job
- black bag operation
- blackout bag
- Blighty bag
- blow in the bag
- blow out one's bags
- blue bag
- board bags
- body bag
- Bogota bag
- boil-in-bag
- boil-in-the-bag
- bonk bag
- booster bag
- bota bag
- bowling bag
- bread bag
- brown bag
- brown-bag
- brown bagging
- brown bag test
- brown paper bag party
- brown paper bag test
- bucket bag
- bugout bag
- bug-out bag
- bulge in the onion bag
- bum bag
- burn bag
- butt bag
- carrier bag
- carrot bag
- carry bag
- chalk bag
- clacka bags
- cloak bag
- clothes-bag
- clothes bag
- clutch bag
- colostomy bag
- continuous bag of words
- cool bag
- cooler bag
- courier bag
- D-bag
- dilli bag
- dilly bag
- dime bag
- dime-bag
- diplomatic bag
- dirt bag
- ditty bag
- dog bag
- doggie bag
- doggy bag
- Dorothy bag
- double bagger
- douche bag
- Douglas bag
- duffle bag
- dumb as a bag of hammers
- dumber than a bag of hammers
- dust bag
- emery bag
- exit bag
- eye bags
- face like a bag of spanners
- Faraday bag
- farding-bag
- feed-bag
- feed bag
- flea bag
- flea-bag
- freezer bag
- fun bags
- game bag
- garbage bag
- garment bag
- gasbag
- gig bag
- give someone the bag
- Gladstone bag
- go bag
- go-bag
- golf bag
- goody bag, goodie bag
- grab-bag
- grab bag
- green bag
- Gro-bag
- gunny-bag
- gym bag
- half in the bag
- handbag
- have the world by the bag
- hay bag
- ho-bag
- ho bag
- hobo bag
- hockey bag
- hoe-bag
- hoe bag
- hoggan-bag
- holdall, carryall, tote, tote bag
- hot water bag
- ice bag
- I lost my bag
- in the bag
- in the bottom of the bag
- it bag
- jiffy-bag
- jiffy bag
- Jiffy bag
- johnny bag
- kitbag
- kit bag
- leave someone holding the bag
- let the cat out of the bag
- like a bag of ferrets
- like ferrets in a bag
- lucky bag
- maggot bag
- mail bag, mailbag
- man bag
- man-bag
- messenger bag
- mixed bag
- modesty bag
- moneybag, money bag
- monkey bag
- moon bag
- mummy bag
- muzzle-bag
- mystery bag
- nickel bag
- nose-bag
- nose bag
- nunny bag
- old bag
- onion bag
- overnight bag
- pack one's bags
- paper bag
- paper-bag
- paper bag party
- paper bag test
- paperbag waist
- party bag
- pastry bag
- piece bag
- piece-bag
- pillow bag
- piping bag
- plastic bag
- Politzer bag
- poop bag
- possibles bag
- postbag
- powder-bag
- property bag
- punching bag
- purple urine bag syndrome
- puss in a bag
- red bag delivery
- reusable shopping bag
- rice bag
- rubbish bag
- saddle-bag
- saddle bag
- sandbag
- schoolbag
- shit bag
- shopping bag
- shoulder bag
- show bag
- sick bag
- sickbag
- singlet bag
- sleeping bag
- slut-bag
- slut bag
- speed bag
- spice bag
- sponge bag
- sponge-bag pants
- sports bag
- squint like a bag of nails
- stoma bag
- sugar bag
- sugarbag, sugar-bag
- suicide bag
- survival bag
- swag bag
- tea-bag
- tea bag
- teabag
- telescope bag
- the cat's out of the bag
- tog bag
- toilet bag
- toiletry bag
- toolbag
- trash bag
- travel bag
- travelling bag
- tricken bag
- vacuum bag
- vampire tea bag
- waist bag
- wash bag
- water-bag
- water bag
- way out of a paper bag
- way out of a wet paper bag
- weekend bag
- weekender bag
- whole bag of tricks
- windbag
- yoga bag
- zoom bag
Descendants
- Korean: 백 (baek)
- Norwegian: bag
Translations
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Verb
bag (third-person singular simple present bags, present participle bagging, simple past and past participle bagged)
- (transitive) To put into a bag.
- (transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
- (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- We bagged three deer yesterday.
- 1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 55:
- He was a fine specimen, very large and with a beautiful coat, and I wish I had had the luck to bag him.
- 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 147:
- "As a matter of fact my thoughts were flashing between Ronda and that man-eating tiger I'm going to bag tomorrow."
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- (slang) To steal.
- 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- "I am sure nobody would mind," said Susan. "It isn't as if we wanted to take them out of the house; we shan't take them even out of the wardrobe."
"I never thought of that, Su," said Peter. "Of course, now you put it that way, I see. No one could say you had bagged a coat as long as you leave it in the wardrobe where you found it. And I suppose this whole country is in the wardrobe."
- "I am sure nobody would mind," said Susan. "It isn't as if we wanted to take them out of the house; we shan't take them even out of the wardrobe."
- 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- 2020, “Those Kinda Nights”, in Music to Be Murdered By, performed by Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran:
- When we hit the club to go and hell-raise / Probably end up baggin' the cocktail waitress
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- (slang) To arrest.
- Synonym: nick
- 2021 January 29, JS x Jtrapz (lyrics and music), “Straight On Smoke”, 0:54–0:56:
- Free bro, free bro, we got bagged for a M
- (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
- 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], OCLC 1154883115, (please specify the page number):
- a bee bagged with his honeyed venom
- (transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- (transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.
- 1985, Sol S. Zimmerman, Joan Holter Gildea, Critical Care Pediatrics (page 205)
- The patient was bagged for a urine analysis and stat electrolytes were drawn.
- 1985, Sol S. Zimmerman, Joan Holter Gildea, Critical Care Pediatrics (page 205)
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- To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
- (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
- The skin bags from containing morbid matter.
- The brisk wind bagged the sails.
- To hang like an empty bag.
- 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 3”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, OCLC 1810828:
- [...] he was dressed in a badly fitting white drill suit, with trousers bagging concertina-like over clumsy black boots.
- 2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island, London: Review, Chapter Eleven, p. 125,
- And this uniform did not even fit me so well. But what is a little bagging on the waist and tightness under the arm when you are a gallant member of the British Royal Air Force?
- His trousers bag at the knees.
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- (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.
- Template:R:Warner Albion
- Venus shortly bagged, and ere long was Cupid bread
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- (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
- To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
- 1977, The Publication of Poetry and Fiction, page 97:
- I may just bag that. I think poets have an obligation to boost the magazines they appear in.
- 1998, Ed Burke, Precision Heart Rate Training, page 78:
- Well, even if your VCR is still blinking “12:00," I hope you're smart enough to stay inside when it's that cold and just bag that workout.
- 1999, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- I will just bag that. If not in the trade bill, that people believe should not interfere with the President's ability to negotiate a trade agreement, how would it be dealt with?
- 2002, Glyn Maxwell, Time's Fool: A Tale in Verse, page 296:
- 'Oh bag that,' said Nelson. 'Do the Edmund stuff — no, cut, we'll do it later, look, it's knocking midnight.'
- 2007, Don Pendleton, Ripple Effect, page 322:
- “Or we can bag that part of it and just go straight inside,” Bolan suggested.
- 2014, Harlan Ellison, Spider Kiss:
- I'll get the sonofa—” “Listen, just bag that punchout shit for the moment. You've got a problem, and don't forget it.
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- To show particular puffy emotion
- (obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.
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- (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
- (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.
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References
- A. F. Niemoeller, "A Glossary of Homosexual Slang," Fact 2, no. 1 (Jan-Feb 1965): 25
Anagrams
- -gab-, ABG, AGB, BGA, GAB, GBA, Gab, gab, gab-
Antillean Creole
Etymology
From French bague.
Noun
bag
- ring
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- bagu
Etymology
Either of substratum origin or from a Vulgar Latin *begō, from Late Latin bīgō, from Latin bīga. Less likely from Greek βάζω (vázo, “put in, set on”). May have originally referred to putting animals under a yoke. Compare Romanian băga, bag.
Verb
bag (past participle bãgatã or bãgate)
- I put, place, apply.
Related terms
- bãgari / bãgare
- bãgat
- nibãgat
See also
- pun
Breton
Etymology
Probably tied to Old French bac (“flat boat”), itself of obscure origin.
Noun
bag f
- boat
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse bak n (“back”), from Proto-Germanic *baką, cognate with Norwegian bak, Swedish bak, English back. The preposition is a shortening of Old Norse á bak (“on the back of”), compare English back from aback, from Old English onbæc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baːˀɣ/, [ˈb̥æˀj], [ˈb̥æˀ], [ˈpɛˀ(j)], (as a preposition or adverb always) IPA(key): [ˈb̥æˀ], [ˈpɛˀ]
Noun
bag c (singular definite bagen, plural indefinite bage)
- (anatomy) behind, bottom, butt, buttocks
- seat (part of clothing)
Inflection
common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | bag | bagen | bage | bagene |
genitive | bags | bagens | bages | bagenes |
Synonyms
- (behind): bagdel, ende, røv (informal)
- (seat): buksebag
Preposition
bag
- behind
Adverb
bag
- behind
Etymology 2
From the verb to bake.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baːˀɣ/, [ˈb̥æˀj], [ˈb̥æˀ]
Noun
bag n (singular definite baget, plural indefinite bage)
- (rare) pastry
- Synonym: bagværk
Inflection
neuter gender | Singular | |
---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | |
nominative | bag | baget |
genitive | bags | bagets |
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baːˀɣ/, [ˈb̥æˀj], [ˈb̥æˀ]
Verb
bag
- imperative of bage
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French bague (“ring”).
Noun
bag
- ring
Meriam
Noun
bag
- cheek
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- bagg
Etymology
Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæɡ/
Noun
bag m (definite singular bagen, indefinite plural bager, definite plural bagene)
- A purse more or less similar to a bag or sack.
- (on a baby carriage) a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.
References
- “bag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- bagg
Etymology
Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi. Doublet of bagge.
Noun
bag m (definite singular bagen, indefinite plural bagar, definite plural bagane)
- A purse more or less similar to a bag or sack.
- (on a baby carriage) a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.
References
- “bag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian
Alternative forms
- bāch
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”) Cognate to Old English bēag.
Noun
bāg m
- a ring
Inflection
case | singular | plural |
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nominative | bāg | bāgar, bāga |
accusative | bāg | bāgar, bāga |
genitive | bāges | bāga |
dative | bāge | bāgum, bāgem |
Rohingya
Etymology
From Magadhi Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit व्याघ्र (vyāghra).
Noun
bag
- tiger
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [baɡ]
Verb
bag
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of băga
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.
Noun
bag c
- A kind of large bag; a duffel bag
Declension
Declension of bag | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bag | bagen | bagar | bagarna |
Genitive | bags | bagens | bagars | bagarnas |
Tagalog
Etymology
From English bag.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbaɡ/, [ˈbaɡ]
Noun
bag
- ladies' bag; handbag
- paper or cloth bag
- Synonym: supot
- jute sack (for grains, cereals, etc.)
- Synonyms: sako, kustal
Torres Strait Creole
Etymology
From Meriam bag.
Noun
Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
- Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information. cheek
Synonyms
- Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information. (western dialect)
Turkmen
Etymology
From Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.. Cognate with Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information., Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information., Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information..
Noun
Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
- garden
Welsh
Etymology
From Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information..
Pronunciation
- Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
- Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
Noun
Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
- bag
Derived terms
- Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
Mutation
Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), chapter bag, in Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information. (in Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
Etymology 1
Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
Verb
Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
- to chop; to split
- Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information. to strike
- to dive; to swoop down
- to divide
- to cut across
Etymology 2
Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
Noun
Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
- mental illness
Adjective
Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
- crazy; mad; insane
- Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
Descendants
- Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
Verb
Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
- to become crazy; to go mad; to go nuts
- Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.