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bag

See also: bağ and båg

EnglishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); 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”)).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bag (plural bags)

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. (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.
  4. (derogatory) An ugly woman.
    Synonyms: dog, hag
  5. (LGBT, slang, US, derogatory) A fellow gay man.[1]
  6. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
    The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
  7. (baseball) First, second, or third base.
    He headed back to the bag.
  8. (preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
  9. (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}.
  10. 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
  11. (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:
      [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.
  12. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
  13. (slang, vulgar) A scrotum.
  14. (UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
  15. (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 […]
  16. (slang) A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
  17. (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
  18. (informal) A large number or amount.

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Korean: 백 (baek)
  • Norwegian: bag

TranslationsEdit

suitcase — see suitcase
backpack — see backpack
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VerbEdit

bag (third-person singular simple present bags, present participle bagging, simple past and past participle bagged)

  1. (transitive) To put into a bag.
  2. (transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
    1. (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."
    2. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
    3. (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."
    4. (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
    5. (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
  3. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
    • 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
      a bee bagged with his honeyed venom
    1. (transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
    2. (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.
  4. To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
    1. (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.
    2. 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:
        [...] 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,[1]
        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.
    3. (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
    4. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.
  5. 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.
  6. To show particular puffy emotion
    1. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.
      (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
    2. (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
    3. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.

TranslationsEdit

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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ A. F. Niemoeller, "A Glossary of Homosexual Slang," Fact 2, no. 1 (Jan-Feb 1965): 25

AnagramsEdit

Antillean CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French bague.

NounEdit

bag

  1. ring

AromanianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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.

VerbEdit

bag (past participle bãgatã or bãgate)

  1. I put, place, apply.

Related termsEdit

See alsoEdit

BretonEdit

EtymologyEdit

Probably tied to Old French bac (“flat boat”), itself of obscure origin.

NounEdit

bag f

  1. boat

DanishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /baːˀɣ/, [ˈb̥æˀj], [ˈb̥æˀ], [ˈpɛˀ(j)], (as a preposition or adverb always) IPA(key): [ˈb̥æˀ], [ˈpɛˀ]

NounEdit

bag c (singular definite bagen, plural indefinite bage)

  1. (anatomy) behind, bottom, butt, buttocks
  2. seat (part of clothing)
InflectionEdit
Declension of bag
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bag bagen bage bagene
genitive bags bagens bages bagenes
SynonymsEdit

PrepositionEdit

bag

  1. behind

AdverbEdit

bag

  1. behind

Etymology 2Edit

From the verb to bake.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /baːˀɣ/, [ˈb̥æˀj], [ˈb̥æˀ]

NounEdit

bag n (singular definite baget, plural indefinite bage)

  1. (rare) pastry
    Synonym: bagværk
InflectionEdit
Declension of bag
neuter
gender 		Singular
indefinite definite
nominative bag baget
genitive bags bagets

Etymology 3Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /baːˀɣ/, [ˈb̥æˀj], [ˈb̥æˀ]

VerbEdit

bag

  1. imperative of bage

Haitian CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French bague (“ring”).

NounEdit

bag

  1. ring

MeriamEdit

NounEdit

bag

  1. cheek

Norwegian BokmålEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bag m (definite singular bagen, indefinite plural bager, definite plural bagene)

  1. A purse more or less similar to a bag or sack.
  2. (on a baby carriage) a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi. Doublet of bagge.

NounEdit

bag m (definite singular bagen, indefinite plural bagar, definite plural bagane)

  1. A purse more or less similar to a bag or sack.
  2. (on a baby carriage) a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.

ReferencesEdit

Old FrisianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”) Cognate to Old English bēag.

NounEdit

bāg m

  1. a ring

InflectionEdit

Declension of bāg (masculine a-stem)
case singular plural
nominative bāg bāgar, bāga
accusative bāg bāgar, bāga
genitive bāges bāga
dative bāge bāgum, bāgem

RohingyaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Magadhi Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit व्याघ्र (vyāghra).

NounEdit

bag

  1. tiger

RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

bag

  1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of băga

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.

NounEdit

bag c

  1. A kind of large bag; a duffel bag

DeclensionEdit

Declension of bag 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bag bagen bagar bagarna
Genitive bags bagens bagars bagarnas

TagalogEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English bag.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bag

  1. ladies' bag; handbag
  2. paper or cloth bag
    Synonym: supot
  3. jute sack (for grains, cereals, etc.)
    Synonyms: sako, kustal

Torres Strait CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Meriam bag.

NounEdit

bag

  1. (anatomy, eastern dialect) cheek

SynonymsEdit

  • masa (western dialect)

TurkmenEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Persian باغ‎ (bâğ). Cognate with Azerbaijani bağ, Crimean Tatar bağ, Turkish bağ.

NounEdit

bag (definite accusative bagy, plural baglar)

  1. garden

WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English bag.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bag m (plural bagiau)

  1. bag

Derived termsEdit

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
bag fag mag unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bag”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

ZhuangEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From Proto-Tai *bra:kD?”)

VerbEdit

bag (Sawndip forms 𭄄 or 擗 or 鐴 or 剥 or 𢫦 or 𪫮 or 扒 or 𰄙 or 𢫗 or ⿱拍刀 or 𠛋 or 𫥴 or ⿰扌劈 or 破, 1957–1982 spelling bag)

  1. to chop; to split
  2. (of lightning) to strike
  3. to dive; to swoop down
  4. to divide
  5. to cut across

Etymology 2Edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

NounEdit

bag (Sawndip forms 𭼈 or ⿸疒百 or 怕 or 剥, 1957–1982 spelling bag)

  1. mental illness

AdjectiveEdit

bag (Sawndip forms 𭼈 or ⿸疒百 or 怕 or 剥, 1957–1982 spelling bag)

  1. crazy; mad; insane
    Synonym: vangh
DescendantsEdit

VerbEdit

bag (Sawndip forms 𭼈 or ⿸疒百 or 怕 or 剥, 1957–1982 spelling bag)

  1. to become crazy; to go mad; to go nuts
    Synonym: vangh
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