bag
English edit
Etymology edit
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”)).
Pronunciation edit
- 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 edit
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.
- 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, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
- (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.
- (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, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →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.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
- (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 […]
- (informal) A large number or amount.
- (slang)
- (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
- Yass girl, go get that bag!!!
- 2014 August 28, Sam Wilhoit, quoting OJ da Juiceman, “The Life and Times of OJ da Juiceman”, in VICE[1], archived from the original on 2023-09-22:
- What about the time you got shot eight times and then played a show the same week? ¶ Oh yeah that was beautiful, I mean it was fucked up that I was shot, but as far as goin' to get that bag I'm always gonna go get that bag.
- [2019 February 6, Rasha Ali, “Get hip to all the slang words and phrases your kids are using and what they mean, okurrr”, in USA Today[2], McLean, V.A.: Gannett, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-16:
- A bag refers to money. So to get a bag or even secure a bag means that you are acquiring money.]
- (US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- (vulgar) The scrotum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) £1000, a grand.
- 2017 May 2, Figure Flows (lyrics and music), “Money Right”, in Big Figures ft. Purple, from 1:18:
- Coulda got a bag last year
But now I get a bag for a verse
- (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
Derived terms edit
- airbag, air bag
- airline bag
- Ali Baba bag
- all that and a bag of chips
- all that and a bag of potato chips
- arrow bag
- assbag
- baby bag
- bag and baggage
- bag and band
- bag boy
- bagboy
- bag-carrier
- bag for life
- bagful
- baggable
- baggage
- bagger
- baggie
- baggy
- baghead
- bagholder
- baghouse
- bagism
- bag job
- bag knot
- bag lady
- bagless
- baglike
- bagload
- bag lunch
- bagmaker
- bagmaking
- bagman
- bag man
- bagmoth
- 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 phone
- bagpipes
- bagplot
- bagpod
- bag pudding
- bag reef
- bagroom
- bag snatcher
- bag up
- bagwash
- bagwoman
- bagwork
- bagworm
- ballbag
- ball bag
- banana bag
- bandolier bag
- barf bag
- barracks bag
- barrel bag
- bathroom bag
- beach bag
- bean bag
- beanbag
- bean-bag
- belly bag
- belt bag
- betel bag
- bin bag
- bin-bag
- binbag
- biobag
- Birkin bag
- bitch bag
- bivi bag
- bivvy bag
- black bag
- black-bag
- black bag job
- black bag operation
- blackout bag
- Blighty bag
- blind 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
- book bag
- book bag
- booster bag
- bota bag
- bowling bag
- breadbag
- bread-bag
- bread bag
- bread-bag clip
- 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
- bulge the onion bag
- bum bag
- burn bag
- butt bag
- carpet-bag
- carpetbag
- carrier bag
- carrot bag
- carry bag
- chaffbag
- chalk bag
- change bag
- changing bag
- chatterbag
- chest bag
- clackerbag
- cloak bag
- clothes bag
- clothes-bag
- clutch bag
- coalbag
- cockbag
- coffee bag
- colostomy bag
- continuous bag of words
- cool bag
- cooler bag
- courier bag
- cryobag
- cuntbag
- D-bag
- debag
- diaper bag
- diaper bag
- dickbag
- dilli bag
- dilly bag
- dime-bag
- dime bag
- diplomatic bag
- dirt bag
- dirtbag
- ditty bag
- dog bag
- doggie bag
- doggy bag
- doofbag
- Dorothy bag
- dossbag
- double bagger
- douche bag
- douchebag
- Douglas bag
- drybag
- duffle bag
- dumb as a bag of hammers
- dumber than a bag of hammers
- dustbag
- dust bag
- earthbag
- eat a bag of dicks
- emery bag
- endobag
- exit bag
- eye bags
- face like a bag of spanners
- Faraday bag
- farding-bag
- feedbag
- feed-bag
- feed bag
- flag bag
- fleabag
- flea-bag
- flea bag
- fleshbag
- footbag
- freezer bag
- fuckbag
- fudgebag
- fumble the bag
- fun bags
- gamebag
- game bag
- garbage bag
- garment bag
- gasbag
- geobag
- giftbag
- gig bag
- give someone the bag
- Gladstone bag
- glovebag
- go-bag
- go bag
- golf bag
- goody bag, goodie bag
- grab bag
- grab-bag
- green bag
- Gro-bag
- grocery bag
- grotbag
- grouch bag
- grow bag
- growbag
- gunny-bag
- gym bag
- half in the bag
- handbag
- hanging wet bag
- have the world by the bag
- haybag
- hay bag
- ho bag
- ho-bag
- hobo bag
- hockey bag
- hoe bag
- hoe-bag
- hoebag
- hoggan-bag
- holdall, carryall, tote, tote bag
- honeybag
- hornbag
- hosebag
- hot water bag
- ice bag
- I lost my bag
- in the bag
- in the bottom of the bag
- it bag
- jellybag
- jerrybag
- 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
- litterbag
- lucky bag
- maggot bag
- mail bag, mailbag
- man bag
- man-bag
- mealbag
- meatbag
- messenger bag
- milkbag
- mingebag
- minibag
- mix bag
- mixed bag
- modesty bag
- moneybag, money bag
- monkey bag
- moon bag
- multibag
- multibagger
- mummy bag
- muzzle-bag
- mystery bag
- nappy bag
- netbag
- nickel bag
- nosebag
- nose bag
- nose-bag
- nunny bag
- nutbag
- old bag
- onion bag
- overnight bag
- pack one's bags
- paper-bag
- paperbag
- paper bag
- paper bag job
- paper bag party
- paper bag test
- paperbag waist
- party bag
- pastry bag
- piece-bag
- piece bag
- pillow bag
- piping bag
- plastic bag
- Politzer bag
- polybag
- poop bag
- poopbag
- possibles bag
- post bag
- postbag
- powder-bag
- property bag
- pull out of the bag
- punchbag
- punching bag
- purple urine bag syndrome
- pusbag
- puss in a bag
- ratbag
- rattlebag
- rebag
- red bag delivery
- rice bag
- rollbag
- rubbish bag
- saddlebag
- saddle-bag
- saddle bag
- sag bag
- sandbag
- sandwich bag
- schoolbag
- scruffbag
- scumbag
- seabag
- seedbag
- shellbag
- shitbag
- shit bag
- shitebag
- shoebag
- shopping bag
- shopping-bag lady
- shoulder bag
- shoulderbag
- show bag
- showbag
- sick bag
- sickbag
- side bag
- singlet bag
- skunkbag
- sleazebag
- sleeping bag
- slimebag
- sling bag
- slut-bag
- slut bag
- slutbag
- snotbag
- speed bag
- spice bag
- sponge-bag
- sponge bag
- sponge-bag pants
- sports bag
- squint like a bag of nails
- stinkbag
- stoma bag
- subbag
- 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
- tuckerbag
- unbag
- vacuum bag
- vampire tea bag
- waist bag
- warbag
- wash bag
- washbag
- waterbag
- water-bag
- water bag
- way out of a paper bag
- way out of a wet paper bag
- wazzbag
- weekend bag
- weekender bag
- wet bag
- what's in the bag
- wheelie bag
- whingebag
- whole bag of tricks
- windbag
- winebag
- workbag
- yoga bag
- zoom bag
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Verb edit
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.
- 2023 May 14, Tan Tam Mei, “Thai election: Early results show opposition parties in the lead”, in The Straits Times[5]:
- the two opposition groups have bagged almost 300 of the 500 seats contested in the election.
- (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."
- (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
- (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, (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.
- 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 III, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
- 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 11, in Small Island[6], London: Review, page 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.
- (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.
- 1602, William Warner, “The Sixt Booke. Chapter XXX.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 148:
- (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, 105-1 Hearing: Implementation of Fast Track Trade Authority:
- 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.
- (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
- (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
Derived terms edit
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References edit
- A. F. Niemoeller (1965 January–February) “A Glossary of Homosexual Slang”, in Ralph Ginzburg, editor, Fact, volume 2, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Fact Magazine, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25: “bag n. A fellow homosexual. Derogatory.”
Anagrams edit
Antillean Creole edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
bag
Aromanian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Either of substrate 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 edit
bag first-singular present indicative (past participle bãgatã or bãgate)
Related terms edit
See also edit
Breton edit
Etymology edit
Probably tied to Old French bac (“flat boat”), itself of obscure origin, although compare Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).
Noun edit
bag f
Danish edit
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
- IPA(key): /baːˀɣ/, [ˈb̥æˀj], [ˈb̥æˀ], [ˈpɛˀ(j)], (as a preposition or adverb always) IPA(key): [ˈb̥æˀ], [ˈpɛˀ]
Noun edit
bag c (singular definite bagen, plural indefinite bage)
Declension edit
Synonyms edit
Preposition edit
bag
Adverb edit
bag
Etymology 2 edit
From the verb to bake.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bag n (singular definite baget, plural indefinite bage)
Declension edit
neuter gender |
Singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | bag | baget |
genitive | bags | bagets |
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bag
- imperative of bage
Haitian Creole edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
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bag
Meriam edit
Noun edit
bag
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 edit
- “bag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi. Doublet of bagge.
Noun edit
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 edit
- “bag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *baug (“ring”). Cognate to Old English bēag.
Noun edit
bāg m
- a ring
Inflection edit
Declension of bāg (masculine a-stem) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | bāg | bāgar, bāga |
genitive | bāges | bāga |
dative | bāge | bāgum, bāgem |
accusative | bāg | bāgar, bāga |
Rohingya edit
Etymology edit
From Magadhi Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit व्याघ्र (vyāghra).
Noun edit
bag
Romanian edit
Pronunciation edit
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bag
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.
Noun edit
bag c
- A kind of large bag; a duffel bag
Declension edit
Declension of bag | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bag | bagen | bagar | bagarna |
Genitive | bags | bagens | bagars | bagarnas |
Tagalog edit
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bag (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜄ᜔)
Torres Strait Creole edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
bag
Synonyms edit
- masa (western dialect)
Turkmen edit
Etymology edit
From Persian باغ (bâğ). Cognate with Azerbaijani bağ, Crimean Tatar bağ, Turkish bağ.
Noun edit
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bag m (plural bagiau)
Derived terms edit
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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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 reading edit
- 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
Zhuang edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /paːk˧/
- Tone numbers: bag8
- Hyphenation: bag
Etymology 1 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From Proto-Tai *bra:kD?”)
Verb edit
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)
Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
bag (Sawndip forms 𭼈 or ⿸疒百 or 怕 or 剥, 1957–1982 spelling bag)
Adjective edit
bag (Sawndip forms 𭼈 or ⿸疒百 or 怕 or 剥, 1957–1982 spelling bag)
Descendants edit
Verb edit
bag (Sawndip forms 𭼈 or ⿸疒百 or 怕 or 剥, 1957–1982 spelling bag)