wagon

Alternative forms

• waggon (UK; dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch wagen, from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos (“wagon, primitive carriage”), from *weǵʰ- (“to transport”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Woain (“wagon”), West Frisian wein (“wagon”), German Wagen (“vehicle; wagon”), Danish vogn (“wagon”), Swedish vagn (“wagon”). Doublet of wain (inherited from Old English wæġn) and related also to way, weigh.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wæɡ.ən/

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• Rhymes: -æɡən

Noun

wagon (plural wagons)

1. A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.
2. A freight car on a railway.
3. A child's riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
4. (US, Australia, slang) A station wagon (or SUV).
5. (slang) A paddy wagon.
6. A truck, or lorry.
7. (Ireland, slang, dated, derogatory) A derogatory term for a woman; bitch; slapper; cow.
   • 1974, in Threshold, Issues 25–27, Lyric Players Theatre, page 96:

     “I’m not like that; I know what you mean but I’m not like that. When you said a field I nearly laughed because I was in a field last week with Ursula Brogan behind the football pitch. We followed Cissy Caffery there and two boys from the secondary. She’s a wagon. She did it with them one after the other, and we watched.”

   • 1990, Roddy Doyle, The Snapper, Penguin Group (1992), →ISBN:

     pages 30–31: —Don’t know. ——She hates us. It’s prob’ly cos Daddy called her a wagon at tha’ meetin’. ¶ Sharon laughed. She got out of bed. ¶ —He didn’t really call Miss O’Keefe a wagon, she told Tracy. —He was only messin’ with yeh.

   • 1998, Neville Thompson, Two Birds/One Stoned, Poolbeg:

     page 8: “Well fuck yeh, yeh stuck-up little wagon.”

Verb

wagon (third-person singular simple present wagons, present participle wagoning, simple past and past participle wagoned)

1. (transitive) To transport by means of a wagon.
2. (intransitive) To travel in a wagon.

See also

• wagon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• wagon in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

Anagrams

• Gowan, gowan, wango, wonga

Etymology

From English waggon, from Dutch wagen. The pronunciation was likely influenced by French wagon, which was also borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋaˈɣɔn/

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Noun

wagon m (plural wagons, diminutive wagonnetje n)

1. car (a railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train)

Etymology

From English waggon, from Dutch wagen.

Pronunciation

• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /wa.ɡɔ̃/
• (France, Switzerland) IPA^(key): /va.ɡɔ̃/

• wagon

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Noun

wagon m (plural wagons)

1. a railway carriage (note that the word voiture is preferred for passenger transport)

Further reading

• “wagon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanization

wagon

1. Rōmaji transcription of わごん
2. Rōmaji transcription of ワゴン

Alternative forms

• wogon
• -wagian, found in witharwagian (to flow back).

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wagōną.

Verb

wagōn

1. to sway

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.ɡɔn/

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Noun

wagon m inan

1. car (a railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train)
2. (colloquial) truckload