bag

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English[edit]

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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]

Noun[edit]

A plastic bag.

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, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
    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. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
    The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
  6. (baseball) First, second, or third base.
    He headed back to the bag.
  7. (preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
  8. (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}.
  9. 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
  10. (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.
  11. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
  12. (UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
  13. (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 […]
  14. (informal) A large number or amount.
  15. (slang)
    2. (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.]
      • 2019 April 4, “Secure The Bag”, Skripteh (lyrics)‎[3], 1:33:
        Secure the bag, secure the bag
        Grab the stash and hit the trap
    3. (US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
    4. A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
    5. (vulgar) The scrotum.
    7. (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
      • 2023 June 18, “100mph Freestyle x3”, Clavish (lyrics)‎[4], 1:30:
        My hoodie cost a bag three, my runners cost a bag two

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • → Japanese: バッグ
  • → Korean: 백 (baek)
  • → Norwegian: bag

Translations[edit]

sack — see sack
paper bag — see paper bag
plastic bag — see plastic bag
suitcase — see suitcase
briefcase — see briefcase
schoolbag — see schoolbag
backpack — see backpack
handbag — see handbag
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Verb[edit]

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.
      • 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.
    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.
      His trousers bag at the knees.
    3. (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
    4. (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:
        VVell, Venus ſhortly bagged, and ere long vvas Cupid bread, […]
  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, 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.
  6. (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
  7. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[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]

From French bague.

Noun[edit]

bag

  1. ring

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)

  1. to put, place, apply

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

  1. boat

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)

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

Preposition[edit]

bag

  1. behind

Adverb[edit]

bag

  1. behind

Etymology 2[edit]

From the verb to bake.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bag n (singular definite baget, plural indefinite bage)

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

Etymology 3[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

bag

  1. imperative of bage

Haitian Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French bague (“ring”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bag

  1. ring

Meriam[edit]

Noun[edit]

bag

  1. cheek

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)

  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.

References[edit]

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)

  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.

References[edit]

Old Frisian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bāg m

  1. a ring

Inflection[edit]

Declension of bāg (masculine a-stem)
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

  1. tiger

Romanian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

bag

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

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.

Noun[edit]

bag c

  1. A kind of large bag; a duffel bag

Declension[edit]

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

Tagalog[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English bag.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bag (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜄ᜔)

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

Torres Strait Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Meriam bag.

Noun[edit]

bag

  1. (anatomy, eastern dialect) cheek

Synonyms[edit]

  • masa (western dialect)

Turkmen[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bag (definite accusative bagy, plural baglar)

  1. garden

Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English bag.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bag m (plural bagiau)

  1. bag

Derived terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

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 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]

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)

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

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)

  1. mental illness

Adjective[edit]

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

  1. crazy; mad; insane
    Synonym: vangh
Descendants[edit]

Verb[edit]

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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