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Etymology

Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi, cognate with Old French bagage (“baggage”), bague (“pack, bundle, belonging”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bag (plural bags)

  1. A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
  2. (informal) A ladies' 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.

Verb

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

  1. To put into a bag.
  2. 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. (slang, African American Vernacular) To be caught by the police.
  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. (Australian, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
  8. (medicine) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.

Related terms

Translations

to put into a bag
  • Bulgarian: слагам в торба bg(bg)
  • Dutch: verpakken nl(nl), inpakken nl(nl), in een zak stoppen nl(nl), in een zak steken nl(nl) (may be Belgian)
  • Finnish: pussittaa fi(fi), panna fi(fi) pussiin
  • French: ensacher fr(fr)
  • Icelandic: sekkja is(is), setja í poka is(is)
  • Interlingua: insaccar ia(ia)
  • Japanese: 鞄 ja(ja)に入れる (かばん に いれる, kaban ni ireru), 袋 ja(ja)にいれる (ふくろ に いれる, fukuro ni ireru)
  • Swedish: packa sv(sv)
  • Vietnamese: bỏ vào bao vi(vi)
to catch
  • Bulgarian: улавям bg(bg)
  • Finnish: kaataa fi(fi) (game), napata fi(fi) (fish), pyydystää fi(fi) (fish or live animals), saada fi(fi) (anything)
  • Icelandic: veiða is(is)
  • Japanese: 仕留める (しとめる, shitomeru)
to provide artificial ventilation
  • Norwegian: bagge no(no)
  • Thai: กระเป๋า th(th) (kràpǎo)
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  • Telugu: సాధించు (saadhimcu)

Descendants

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bak (“back”).

Adverb

bag

  1. behind

Noun

bag c. (singular definite bagen, plural indefinite bage)

  1. behind, bottom, butt, buttocks
  2. seat (part of clothing)
Synonyms
Inflection
Inflection of bag
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative bag bagen bage bagene
genitive bags bagens bages bagenes

Preposition

bag

  1. behind

Etymology 2

Verbal noun to bage (“bake”).

Noun

bag n.

  1. pastry
Synonyms

Verb

bag

  1. Imperative of bage

Meriam

Noun

bag

  1. cheek

Norwegian

Etymology

Loanword from Old Norse baggi through English bag.

Pronunciation

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