bag

Etymology

From Middle English bagge, borrowed from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰak- (compare Welsh baich (“load, bundle”), Ancient Greek βάσταγμα (bástagma, “load”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæɡ/
• (US, some dialects) IPA^(key): /bɛɡ/
• (US, Upper Midwest) IPA^(key): /beɪɡ/,

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æɡ

Noun

bag (plural bags)

1. A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
2. (informal) A handbag
3. A suitcase.
4. A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
5. One’s preference.

   Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.

6. (derogatory) An ugly woman.
7. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

   The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.

8. (baseball) First, second, or third base.

   He headed back to the bag.

9. (preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
10. (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

    If one has a bag of three apples and the letter 'a' is taken to denote 'apple', then such bag could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Note that in an ordinary context, when talking about a bag of apples, one does not care about identifying the individual apples, although one might be interested in distinguishing apples by species, for example, 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}.

11. 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

12. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
13. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
14. (slang, vulgar) A scrotum.
15. (Britain) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.

Verb

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

1. To put into a bag.
2. (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.

   We bagged three deer yesterday.

3. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
4. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
   • Dryden

     a bee bagged with his honeyed venom

5. (slang, African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
6. (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
7. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
8. (medicine) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
9. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell or hang down like a full bag.

   The skin bags from containing morbid matter.

   The brisk wind bagged the sails.

10. To hang like an empty bag.
    • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 3,

      […] he was dressed in a badly fitting white drill suit, with trousers bagging concertina-like over clumsy black boots.

    His trousers bag at the knees.

11. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

12. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Warner. (Alb. Eng.) to this entry?)

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ABG, AGB, BGA, GBA, gab

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)

1. I put, place, apply.

Noun

bag f

1. boat

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æː

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bak (“back”).

Etymology 2

Verbal noun of bage (“bake”).

Etymology

From French bague (“ring”).

Noun

bag

1. ring

Noun

bag

1. cheek

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)

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

• “bag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Alternative forms

• bagg

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.

Noun

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

• “bag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Alternative forms

• bāch

Etymology

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

Noun

bāg m

1. a ring

Etymology

From Sanskrit व्याघ्र (vyāghra).

Noun

bag

1. tiger

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.

Noun

bag c

1. A kind of large bag; a duffel bag

Etymology

From Meriam bag.

Noun

bag

1. (anatomy, eastern dialect) cheek

Noun

bag (definite accusative bagy, plural baglar)

1. garden