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▪ I. swag, n.|swæg|
Also 4, 6 swagge, 7–9 swagg.
[In senses 1 and 2 perh. of Scandinavian origin; cf. with sense 2 Norw. dial svagg big strong well-grown person. The other senses are mainly direct from swag v.]
†1. A bulgy bag. Obs.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 502 Þere was a wycche, and made a bagge, A bely of leþyr, a grete swagge.
†2. A big blustering fellow. Obs.
1588Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 5 Will you not sweare as commonly you do, like a lewd swag? 1589Nashe Martins Months Minde 42 Kaitiues, lewd swagges, ambicious wretches. 1589Cooper Admon. 62 Hee termeth him a Swag. What hee meaneth by that, I will not diuine: but as all the rest is lewde, so surely herein hee hath a lewde meaning. 1764Low Life (ed. 3) 44 Munster-Cracks, Connaught-Peers, Ulster-Swags, Leinster-Fortune-Hunters, Welch-Gentle Men.
3. A swaying or lurching movement; for spec. dial. uses see quots. 1825–80, 1876.
1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. i. (1682) 10 In goes he to the Boat..and the suddenness of the swag, overturn'd the vessel upon the passengers. 1825J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 44 Couplings should be placed near the bearings, as there is there the least swag. 1825Cobbett Rur. Rides (1830) 75 ‘Oh, yes, Sir,’ said he, and with an emphasis and a swag of the head. 1825–80Jamieson, Swag,..2. Inclination from the perpendicular. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. x. 251 One would think a ‘strong-minded’ woman must necessarily have the figure of a horse-guard, the swag of a drayman, and the sensibility of a carcase-butcher. 1876Whitby Gloss., Side-swag or Side-sway, a declivity close to the road side, threatening a carriage with an overbalance. 1894Blackmore Perlycross 270 The canvas curtain had failed to resist the swag and the bellying of the blast. 1903Kipling Five Nations 46, I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch's swag and swing.
†4. A pendulum. Obs.
So dial. swagment (Whitby Gloss. 1876).
1686Molyneux Sciothericum Telescop. x. 45 The Pendulum or swagg is to be lengthned or shortned as is requisite.
5. A heavy fall or drop. local.
c1700Kennett MS. Lansd. 1033 s.v., One that falls down wh some violence and noise is said to come down wh a swag. 1887S. Chesh. Gloss. s.v., One comes down with a swag upon the spring of a bicycle, or upon a hay-stack, or boggy ground, &c. 1912Blackw. Mag. Dec. 805/2 They heard the sound they most desired, the heavy swag as, reassured, he dropped himself down again.
6. a. A wreath or festoon of flowers, foliage, or fruit fastened up at both ends and hanging down in the middle, used as an ornament; also of a natural festoon.
1794W. Felton Carriages (1801) II. 48 A pair of handsome swags of flowers, painted on the pannels. 1813Gentl. Mag. Mar. 228/2 Swaggs of fruit and flowers. 1846Art Union Jrnl. Jan. 36 A..scroll of foliage..flanked by living birds of a peculiar character (often used by Gibbons in his swags and trophies). 1886Law Times LXXX. 310/1 A deep frieze and cornice, from which depend a series of festoons and swags. 1906Quiller-Couch Sir J. Constantine xiv, The creepers which festooned the rock here and there in swags as thick as the Gauntlet's hawser.
b. Theatr. A festooned stage-curtain or drapery, fastened similarly. Also transf. and attrib.
1959Rae & Southern Internat. Vocab. Techn. Theatre Terms 58 74 Swag border. 1961J. Osborne Entertainer 11 Different swags can be lowered for various scenes to break up the acting areas. 1982Barr & York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 136/3 Lots of pretty pelmets and a few swags, variations on the theme of stage curtains—not like those dreadful draped net affairs one sees from the bypass.
7. A sinking, subsidence; concr. a depression in the ground which collects water, esp. one caused by mining excavations. local.
1848Holden's Dollar Mag. Aug. 475/2 A ‘Swag’ is often met with in the Western country. It is a concave spot, sunk in below the level by nature. 1856Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XVII. ii. 518 The wet ‘swag’ must be relieved by an additional..channel into the exit-drain. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining, Swag, subsidence or weighting of the roof. 1887Pall Mall G. 12 July 8/2 Two brothers..were drowned while bathing in an old colliery swag at Bradley, near Wolverhampton. 1891B'ham Weekly Post 28 July 8/3 The evidence showed that the deceased was bathing in a swag on Saturday.
8. a. Cant. A shop. Cf. swag-shop (in 12 b).
1676Coles Dict., Swag, a shop. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew. 1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T.
b. One who keeps a ‘swag-shop’. slang.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 349 One in Holborn, and the other at Black Tom's (himself formerly a street-seller, now ‘a small swag’).
9. A thief's plunder or booty; gen. a quantity of money or goods unlawfully acquired, gains dishonestly made. slang.
1794Sessions Papers Central Criminal Court Jan. 341/1 There are very few gentlemen here on the jury but what know what a swag is; the meaning is, a bundle of clothes that are stolen from any place. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict. s.v., The Swag is a term used in speaking of any booty you have lately obtained..except money. 1827Scott Let. to Croker in Lockhart, I have been stealing from you, and..I send you a sample of the swag. 1838Dickens O. Twist xix, ‘It's all arranged about bringing off the swag, is it?’ asked the Jew. 1862Calverley Charades vi. v. in Verses & Transl. (ed. 2) 95 While one hope lingers, the cracksman's fingers Drop not his hard-earned ‘swag’. 1891Newcastle Daily Jrnl. 18 Mar. 5/3 This genial gentleman went off to America with the swag.
10. Austral. and N.Z. The bundle of personal belongings carried by a traveller in the bush, a tramp, or a miner. Freq. in colloq. phrases to hump the swag: see hump v. 2; on the swag: on one's travels.
1853J. Rochfort Adventurers of Surveyer vi. 49 Disregarding the state of the roads,..we strapped on our ‘swags’, consisting of a pair of blankets and a spare pair of trousers, and started for the diggings. 1864J. Rogers New Rush i. 1 Their ample swags upon a cart are tied. 1881Grant Bush Life Queensl. I. v. 43 The quart-pots were now put on to boil, swags were opened and food produced. 1889H. H. Romilly Verandah N. Guinea 5 Every digger in former days carried in imagination a gigantic nugget in his swag. 1935J. Guthrie Little Country xxi. 312 You shouldered your swag and left to seek the foot of another rainbow. 1941Baker N.Z. Slang v. 41 Such expressions as to swag it and go on the swag need no elaboration. 1947D. M. Davin Gorse blooms Pale 76 Jack went off on the swag for a few years. 1966J. K. Baxter Pig Island Lett. 16 No books, no bread Are left in my swag. 1971N.Z. Listener 19 Apr. 56/5 He had a compass in his swag but it was pukeroo'd.
11. A great quantity of something (now chiefly Austral. and N.Z.); a large draught of liquor (dial.). (Cf. Sc. swack.)
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict. s.v., A swag of any thing signifies emphatically a great deal. 1825–80Jamieson, Swag, a large draught of any liquid. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 373/1 The term Swag, or Swack, or Sweg, is,..a Scotch word, meaning a large collection, a ‘lot’. 1863Tyneside Songs 93 An' wishin'..For a swag o' good Newcassel yell. 1929K. S. Prichard Coonardoo 49 A boy with a swag of ideals, Hughie was still, Mrs. Bessie realized. 1949F. Sargeson I saw in my Dream ix. 75, I suppose you blokes get told a lot of yarns about a crook missis and a swag of kids. 1963Weekly News (Auckland) 5 June 37/2 There was a big swag of fowls on the station running semiwild. 1973New Journalist (Australia) July–Aug. 4/1 It is cheaper to buy a swag of aged situation comedies..than to produce even the simplest studio-bound program in Australia.
12. attrib. and Comb.
a. swag lamp, light N. Amer., an overhead light externally wired so that the flex hangs in a loop across the ceiling towards the power socket; swag-like adv., after the fashion of a bushman's ‘swag’; swagman, (a) a man engaged in the ‘swag-trade’ or who keeps a ‘swag-shop’ (see b); (b) Austral. and N.Z., a man who travels with a ‘swag’; swagsman, † (a) = swagman (b); (b) (see quot. 1890).
1970Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 28/6 (Advt.), *Swag lamps; chromed chairs, easy chairs.
1966M. M. Pegler Dict. Interior Design (1967) 436 *Swag light, a lamp or light fixture which is hooked into the ceiling with the electric cord..swagged from the hanging point to the nearest wall, and then down to the floor outlet where it is plugged in.
1890Melbourne Argus 2 Aug. 4/2 He strapped the whole lot together *swag-like.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 447/2 The ‘*swag-men’ are often confounded with the ‘lot-sellers’. 1883Keighley Who are You? 36 (Morris) Then took a drink of tea... Such as the swagmen in our goodly land Have with some Humour named the post-and-rail. 1890Melbourne Argus 7 June 4/2 The regular swagman, carrying his ration bags, which will sometimes contain nearly 20 days' provender in flour and sugar and tea.
1869in W. M. Hugo Hist. First Bushmen's Club Austral. Colonies (1872) 30 A *swagsman, and not ashamed to own it. I have done the ‘wallaby’ for years past in search of a billet. 1874A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences xv. 212 One source of annoyance to the squatters is the ‘swagsmen’..or men who travel about the country, professedly in search of work, but who do not in reality want it. 1879J. B. Stephens Drought & Doctrine Wks. 309 (Farmer) A swagsman..with our bottle at his lips. 1880G. Sutherland Tales of Goldfields 89 One of these prospecting swagsmen was journeying towards Maryborough. 1890Barrère & Leland Slang Dict., Swagsman,..an accomplice who takes charge of the plunder.
b. slang. Denoting the trade in certain classes of small, trifling, or trashy articles, those engaged in such trade, etc.
1829P. Egan Boxiana 2nd Ser. II. 74 It is impossible to describe the applause bestowed upon Delay by the boys of the Blue Anchor, the Cock and Cross, and the Ship and Gun, near the great swag shop in the east. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 333/2 The slaughterer sells by retail; the swag-shop keeper only by wholesale. Ibid. 355/1 Of these swag-barrowmen, there are not less than 150. Ibid., The tinwares of the swag-barrows are nutmeg-graters, bread-graters, beer-warmers, fish-slices, goblets, mugs, save-alls, extinguishers, candle-shades, money-boxes, children's plates, and rattles. Ibid. 373/1 The Haberdashery Swag-Shops. By this name the street-sellers have long distinguished the warehouses, or rather shops, where they purchase their goods. Ibid. 447/2 The ‘penny apiece’ or ‘swag’ trade. 1904Daily Chron. 25 July 6/5 Another showman described himself as ‘the cheapest man for all kinds of swag watches, all goers’.
▸ a. colloq. Items given away free, typically for promotional purposes, to people attending an event, using a service, etc.; = schwag n. 2. Cf. freebie n.
1961Pittsburgh Courier 21 Oct. 23/5, I..recently encountered the one [sc. airline] that seems to give away the greatest amount of swag... Travel booklets, a silk scarf, a pair of soft slippers, [etc.]. 1988Toronto Star (Nexis) 27 Feb. b5 The T.O. suite provided a place for the IOC delegates to rest. From what? Lugging around all the free swag they picked up here? 1999Independent 28 May ii. 8/7 Swag—badges, baseball caps, match programmes—is vacuumed up by everyone. 2006Cosmo Girl! Feb. 19/2 Check out the fun bag of swag we gave our BTL Awards guests!
b. slang (orig. U.S.). Marijuana, esp. of low quality (in quot. 1986, fake marijuana); = schwag n. 1.
1986Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 15 July At least half the ‘marijuana’ arrests on the Common in the past two months involved swag, a street name for counterfeit marijuana which often is herbal tea. 1991R. A. Jamieson Day at Office 59 He pulled his tobacco out. Should he roll a j? If she lived with Kathy, it must be cool. ‘I've got a wee bit of swag here if you fancy a blow.’ 1994Los Angeles Times 24 Feb. 1 The part-time work covers a bag of ‘swag’ (lower quality marijuana), which can cost $15, or 1/8-ounce of prime ‘skunk’, which goes for $60. 2005Maclean's 7 Nov. 36/3 Prices range from $40 a 10-seed packet for some Jamaican swag to $345 per pack for something tastier, like Marley's Collie. Each plant, properly nurtured, will yield at least a pound of smokable dope.
▪ II. † swag, a. Obs. rare.
[attrib. use of swag n. 2.]
? Big and blustering.
c1620Trag. Barnavelt ii. vii. in Bullen O. Pl. (1883) II. 242 Hansom swag fellowes And fitt for fowle play.
▪ III. swag, v. Now chiefly dial.|swæg|
Also 6 swagge, 8–9 swagg.
[The existence of this verb is perh. attested for the 15th cent. in swaggyng (s.v. swagging vbl. n. note), and in swage v.2 Its immediate source is uncertain, but it is prob. Scandinavian: cf. Norw. dial. svagga and svaga to sway (see sway v. etym.).
The English word might correspond to a Scandinavian form of either type (with -gg- or -g-), according to dialect; cf., on the one hand, nag v. (Norw., Sw. nagga), sag v. (Norw. dial. sagga), wag v. (MSw. wagga); on the other, drag v. (ON. draga), flag n.2 (Icel. flag, ON. flaga), snag (Norw. dial. snag, snage); also Sc. swaw = undulating or swinging motion, and flaw n.1 (ON. flaga).]
1. intr. To move unsteadily or heavily from side to side or up and down; to sway without control.
a. of a pendulous part of the body, or of the whole person.
spec. in Horsemanship: see quot. 1850.
1530Palsgr. 744/1, I swagge, as a fatte persons belly swaggeth as he goth, je assouage. 1598R. Haydocke tr. Lomazzo ii. 13 Moouing their limmes moderatly, and not permitting them to swag, hang, turne aside and be dilated. 1641W. Hooke New Eng. Teares 11 Here ride some dead men swagging in their deep saddles. a1712W. King Acc. Horace's Behaviour Wks. 1776 III. 36 Bless me, Sir, how many craggs You've drunk of potent ale! No wonder if the belly swaggs. 1838Fraser's Mag. XVII. 683 He..swags forward with the gait neither of Christian, Pagan, nor man. 1850‘H. Hieover’ (C. Brindley) Pract. Horsemanship 11 The idea that tall men are apt to, what is technically termed, ‘swag’ on the horse. 1859Thackeray Virgin. ix, The stout chief..sat swagging from one side to the other of the carriage.
b. of a structure or something erected or set in position, a boat, or the like. (Also occas. of a rigid body, to get out of line.)
1611Cotgr., Baccoler,..to tottar, swag, swing, lift, or heaue often vp and downe. 1633T. James Voy. 79 Which made her [sc. a ship] swag and wallow in her Docke. 1641Brome Joviall Crew ii. Wks. 1873 III. 393 These pounds are (as I feel them swag) Light at my heart, tho' heavy in the bag. 1664Evelyn Sylva 51 Establish their weak stalks, by siefting some more earth about them; especially the Pines, which being more top-heavy are more apt to swag. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 193 Hay will often swag and pitch in the reek after making. 1784tr. Beckford's Vathek 77 These vigilant guards, having remarked certain cages of the ladies swagging somewhat awry. 1793Washington Let. Writ. 1891 XII. 379 The advantage of this latch is, that let the gate swag as it may, it always catches. 1801Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 519/2 The thread, being..unable to bear close packing on the bobin, would swag out by the whirling of the fly. 1812J. J. Henry Camp. agst. Quebec 58 Though we attempted to steady it, the boat swagged. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §839 If hurried, the walls will surely be crippled; that is, they will swag, or swerve from the perpendicular. 1867D. G. Mitchell Rural Stud. 85 The posts are firm and cannot swag.
c. transf. and fig. To sway; † to vacillate.
1608Middleton Mad World iii. i, I'll poise her words i' th' balance of suspect: If she but swag, she's gone. 1649Owen Stedfastness of Promises (1650) 14 The Promise, that draws the Soul upward, and the weight of its unbelief, that sinks it downward:..the poor Creatures swaggs between both. 1705J. Dunton Life & Errors 430 If Prerogative swaggs too far on the one side, to step over to Property. 1862Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xiii. xiii. (1872) V. 130 The Austrian left wing, stormed-in upon in this manner, swags and sways. 1887G. Hooper Camp. Sedan 128 The front of battle swagged to and fro.
2. To sink down; to hang loosely or heavily; to sag. Also with down.
1621tr. Drexelius' Angel-Guardian's Clock 270 His iawes began to drie,..his armes to swagg. a1661Fuller Worthies, London (1662) ii. 199 A Swaggerer, so called, because endevouring to make that Side to swag or weigh down, whereon he ingageth. 1713J. Warder True Amazons 111 Or else such a Weight will make it swag. 1731Phil. Trans. XXXVII. 31 As the Line swagged down much below the Silk Lines that supported it. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Swagg, to sink down by its own weight; to move heavily or bend. 1876Blackmore Cripps xxvi, A timer-dray..with a great trunk swinging and swagging on the road. 1876Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘It swagg'd wi' wet’, was depressed with moisture; said of a plant. 1883M. P. Bale Saw-Mills 337 Swag, a term applied to driving belts when they are too long or run too loosely.
transf.1769Chron. in Ann. Reg. 154/1 Many dreadful clouds..had been swagging about. 1790Black Marr. Heaven & Hell Argt., Hungry clouds swag on the deep.
3. trans. To cause to sway uncertainly; to rock about; also, to cause to sink or sag.
c1530Judic. Urines i. iii. 5 b, Nother that it be not swagged nor borne fro place to place. For shakyng and boystyous ordryng may cause vryne to be trubbled. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. Dict. s.v. Truss, To Truss up..a Branch of a Wall-Tree..that the Fruit may not..disfigure the Tree by Swagging it down with its weight. 1708Sewel Eng.-Du. Dict. s.v., This weight will swag it down. 1777Chron. in Ann. Reg. 215/2 He swagged the boat, and in a few minutes filled it and sunk it. 1802M. Edgeworth Rosanna i, The couplings and purlins of the roof..swagged down by the weight of the thatch.
4. [f. swag n. 10.] Chiefly Austral. and N.Z.
a. intr. to swag it: to carry one's ‘swag’ or bundle of effects. Also in extended use, to travel as a swagman (up a region).
b. trans. To pack up (one's effects) in a ‘swag’; to carry in a ‘swag’; also, to wander about (the land) as a swagman.
1861T. M'Combie Australian Sk. 5 The solitary pedestrian, with the whole of his supplies, consisting of a blanket and other necessary articles, strapped across his shoulders—this load is called the ‘swag’, and the mode of travelling, ‘swagging it’. 1861J. Haast Rep. Topographical Exploration Western Districts Nelson Province i. 16 We again started, on the 11th of February, swagging part of the provisions, &c., down the Buller. 1875J. Jenkins Diary Welsh Swagman (1975) 52 It is better than swagging the country..searching for work. 1883W. S. Green High Alps N.Z. 247 We would be obliged..to obtain a sheep and ‘swag’ it up the glacier again. 1887W. W. Graham Climbing the Himalayas iii. in From Equator to Pole 101 We accordingly swagged up our things. 1901Bulletin Reciter (Sydney) 5 And swagging up the long divide that leads to Daybreak Range We came. 1914A. A. Grace Tale of Timber Town 116 You'll get the tucker..and you'll help swag it. 1939J. D. Pascoe Unclimbed N.Z. 42 We left the hut in auspicious weather to swag up the Mingha riverbed. 1960‘A. Carson’ Rose by any Other Name ix. 50, I was swagging my way up to the Northern Territory.
5. Criminals' slang.
†a. To steal; to make away with (stolen property). Obs.
b. To push (a person) forcefully, to ‘shove’; to take or snatch away roughly.
1846Swell's Night Guide 113/2 Bag, to take away, see pinch and swag. 1886H. Baumann Londinismen 200/2 Swag..v., plündern, rauben. 1958F. Norman Bang to Rights i. 10 So when we got swaged into the meatwagon I asked another geezer the strength of him, and the strength was that he'd got nicked for ponceing. 1978J. Barnett Head of Force iii. 21 The object is to see if the Commissioner was swagged away by anyone during the demo. |