bagn.

Brit.

/baɡ/, U.S.

/bæɡ/

Forms: Middle English–1600s bagge, 1500s–1600s bagg, Middle English– bag.

Etymology: Early Middle English bagge : compare Old Norse baggi ‘bag, pack, bundle’ (not elsewhere in Germanic); also Old French bague , Provençal bagua baggage, medieval Latin baga chest, sack. The English was possibly from the Old Norse; but the source of this, as well as of the Romanic words, is unknown; the Celtic derivation suggested by Diez is not tenable: Gaelic bag is from English. Of connection with Germanic *balgi-z , Gothic balgs , Old English bęlg , bælg , bælig , whence belly n., bellows n., and the cognate Celtic bolg, balg, there is no evidence.

I. General sense.

a. A receptacle made of some flexible material closed in on all sides except at the top (where also it generally can be closed); a pouch, a small sack.green bag, blue bag: see the first element.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun]

fetlesc893

pougheOE

codOE

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scripc1300

swag1303

pocket1350

pursec1390

sacketc1440

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scrippagea1616

sac1814

savoy bag1854

keister1882

sack1904

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 129 Hit is beggilde richte to beore bagge onbacke. burgeise to beore purs.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 129 Trusses & purses. baggen & packes.

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. 41 Til heor Bagges and heore Balies weren faste I-crommet.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 21 Bagge, or poke: Sacculus.

1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.ii^v Haue fyue or syxe bagges for your Ipocras to renne in, &..basyns to stande vnder your bagges.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xvii. 40 And put them in the shepardes bagge which he had.

1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxi. 51 Any man that putteth himselfe into the enemies Port, had need of Argus eyes, and the wind in a bagge.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §6 Passing it through a woolen bagg.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 138 He would usually take three or four worms out of his bag .

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 26 Our English By-word to express such betwixt whom there is apparent odds of strength, He is able to put him up in a bagge.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 4 The younger people,..With bag and basket,..Went nutting.

b. A base in baseball (see quot. 1857). U.S.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball ground > [noun] > base

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first base1848

second base1848

third base1848

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first1864

bag1873

sack1914

1857 Spirit of Times 28 Feb. 420/3 The first, second, and third bases shall be canvas bags, painted white, and filled with sand or saw-dust.]

1873 Forest & Stream 20 Nov. 231/1 In this inning, through error, the Princetons succeeded in getting the bags full, with no men out.

1917 C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan xiii. 177 Hunt was two yards from the bag when the ball reached third base.

c. figurative. A preoccupation, mode of behaviour or experience; a distinctive style or category; esp. a characteristic manner of playing jazz or similar music. Cf. bag of tricks at sense 18a. slang (originally U.S.).

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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > occupation or preoccupation

preoccupation1844

bag1960

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [noun] > style of performing

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jazzification1924

in the groove1932

bag1960

karaoke1977

scratch1982

scratching1982

scratch-mixing1987

1960 J. Hendricks in D. Cerulli et al. Jazz Word (1962) 140 Lack of acceptance is a drag... Man, that's really in another bag.

1962 Jazz Jrnl. Mar. 30 ‘Bag’ is a current piece of trade jargon for hip musicians, and means something between a personal style and a body of work.

1966 Sunday Times 13 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 35/4 ‘His bag is paper sculpture’, ‘she's in a folk-song bag right now’.

1966 Crescendo Dec. 16/1 Singing blues with Basie is another kind of bag.

2. With various substantives defining its purpose, the two words being hyphened, as air-, bread-, cloak-, game-, mail-, money-, post-, soot-, travelling-. See also carpet-bag n., nosebag n., wind-bag n.

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1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 3. ¶8 The Hill of Mony Bags, and the Heaps of Mony.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 132. ⁋1 His Cloke-bag was fixed in the Seat of the Coach.

1716 in London Gaz. No. 5411/4 Pistol-Bags of grey Cloth.

1782 A. Monro Ess. Compar. Anat. (ed. 3) 60 in Monro's Anat. Human Bones (new ed.) The construction and dilatation of the air-bag.

1814 T. Moore Twopenny Post Bag 284 The honour and delight of first ransacking the Post Bag.

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xii. 195 There's nothing about bread-bags in the articles of war..sir.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iv. v. 262 Our ‘redoubts of cotton-bags’ are taken.

1862 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (ed. 9) 220 Three feeds in the corn-bag.

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies i. 18 Not if it's in the bottom of the soot-bag.

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 217 Travelling-bags..steamer bags, tourists' bags, railroad bags, pic-nic bags, dress-suit bags, hand bags, shopping bags, brief bags.

II. Specific uses.

3. = Money-bag, purse.

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1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 284 Be so the bagge and he [the avarous] accorden, Him reccheth nought what men recorden Of him.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 196/2 Bagge, a purse.

1572 Lament Lady Scot. in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 249 Gif sum sect knaw that they haue geir or baggs.

1596 Bp. W. Barlow tr. L. Lavater Three Christian Serm. i. 120 Laying the payment..vpon their parentes bagges.

1611 Bible (King James) John xii. 6 Because he was a thief, and had the bag .

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 230 A wealthy foole doth in vaine hope by all his bagges to purchase wisedome.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 48 The covetous man loves to count over his bags.

†4. poetic in plural. Bagpipes. Obsolete. Cf. pipe n.¹ 1c.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > bagpipe

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c1275 Mapes Body & Soul 50 This pipers that this bagges blewen.

1790 Scots Songs II. 36 Then to his bags he flew wi' speed, About the drone he twisted.

5. A small silken pouch to contain the back-hair of a wig; cf. bag-wig n.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > wig > bag for

bag1702

1702 London Gaz. No. 3864/4 A short man..wears a Peruke ty'd up in a Bag.

1793 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 487 It was understood..that gentlemen should be dressed in bags.

1806 A. Duncan Nelson's Funeral 13 Two attendants..in full mourning dress, with black gowns, swords, and bags.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vi. vii. 110 He cannot..change the graceful French bag into the strict Prussian queue in a moment.

6. A measure of quantity for produce, varying according to the nature of the commodity.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units > bag or sack as unit

pokec1300

sack1314

pocket1350

quarter-sackc1422

mailc1503

bag1679

sugar-bag1963

1679 W. Bedloe Narr. Horrid Popish Plot 15 Removing some Baggs of Hopps.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A Bag of Almonds..is about 3 Hundred Weight.

1845 Morning Chron. 22 Nov. 5/2 Potatoes..There are three bushels to the bag.

a. = Mail-bag, post-bag; mail.

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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > equipment for sending or delivering mail > [noun] > mail-bag

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bag1702

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mail pouch1843

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1702 London Gaz. No. 3814/4 Write by Ormskirk Bag.

1781 W. Cowper Let. 23 May (1979) I. 483 The Boy has lost the Bag in which your Letter must have been.

1814 T. Moore Twopenny Post Bag 283 The Bag from which the following Letters are selected.

b. A diplomatic bag.

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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > equipment for sending or delivering mail > [noun] > mail-bag > diplomatic bag

bag1816

diplomatic bag1956

pouch1958

1816 H. Brougham Let. in H. Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I. xi. 252 I think it better to trust this to the post than to any of their d—d bags.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Let. 15 Mar. (1946) III. 25 When Wm. Grey goes to Paris you'll have the use of the bag again.

1964 Times 6 July 11/3 It [sc. reciprocity] should mean..that embassies and bags are inviolate.

†8. Medicine. A kind of poultice. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > poultice, plaster, or compress

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antiphlogistin1901

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Bag..a kind of fomentation..of proper ingredients, inclosed in a bag.

9. Shooting. = Game-bag; hence, the contents of a game-bag, the quantity of fish or game however large (embracing e.g. elephants and buffaloes) killed at one time; the produce of a hunting, fishing, or shooting expedition. figurative. Hence in plural (slang), much, many, ‘heaps’.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [noun] > bag or collection of game

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bag-making1870

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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product > produce, yield, or return

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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount

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Niagara1828

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bag1917

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mob-o-ton1975

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buttload1988

shit ton1991

1486 Bk. St. Albans B iij Ye most take a partrich in yowre bagge.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 196/2 A fauconner's bagge, gibissière.

1858 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 16 Mar. (1860) I. xxi. 348 The philanthropists who were cheering each other with the thought that there was sure ‘to be a good bag at Lucknow’, will be disappointed.

1863 J. H. Speke Jrnl. Discov. Source of Nile iii. 36 ‘The bags’ we made counted two brindled gnu, four water-boc, one pallah-boc, and one pig.

1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies i. 84 The chance of a brace or two of game less in your own bags in a day's shooting.

1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling i. 22 The artist in roach-fishing alone will make fair bag on an indifferent day.

1900 Daily News 9 June 5/5 Our bag was 4 engines and 84 trucks, with a quantity of coal.

1917 P. Gibbs Battles of Somme 105 ‘We took bags of ‘em [sc. Germans],’ said an officer.

1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 9 Bags, plenty; a large number.

1919 J. B. Morton Barber of Putney xiii. 209 It's not gay, this life, but it might be bags worse.

1919 J. B. Morton Barber of Putney xvii. 285 There's bags of good names, and yet blokes go an' call their kids Ermyntrude.

1930 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 96 Bags, plenty, lots. E.g. ‘Got any bully?’—‘Yes, bags of it.’ And especially bags of room.

1930 C. V. Grimmett Getting Wickets i. 32 It was with Prahran that I recorded my big successes in club cricket, my ‘bags’ in four seasons being 67, 39, 68 and 56 wickets respectively.

1940 I. Halstead Wings of Victory i. ii. 56 What his personal ‘bag’ was I don't know—certainly it was over twenty.

1945 R. L. Seddon Whims of W.A.A.F. 14 With ‘bags’ of ambition.

1955 Times 19 Aug. 2/5 A retrospective exhibition..an exhibition of drawings..and now a film..this is Picasso's ‘bag’ for the summer of 1955.

1962 A. Wesker Chips with Everything i. i. 12 We 'ad bags o' fun, bags o' it.

figurative.1881 W. Harcourt Speech at Glasgow 26 Oct. Lord Salisbury and Sir S. Northcote..had a rattling day at Newcastle and Beverley—but I ask myself what is their bag?

III. Transferred senses; bag-like objects.

10. An udder, a dug.

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the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > udder

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yure1483

dug1530

bag1579

ewer1787

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun]

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breastOE

mammaOE

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mam1611

Milky Way1622

bubby?1660

udder1702

globea1727

fore-buttock1727

tetty1746

breastwork?1760

diddy1788

snows1803

sweets1817

titty1865

pappy1869

Charleys1874

bub1881

breastiec1900

ninny1909

pair1919

boobs1932

boobya1934

fun bag1938

maraca1940

knockers1941

can1946

mammaries1947

bazooms1955

jug1957

melon1957

bosoms1959

Bristols1961

chichi1961

nork1962

puppies1963

rack1968

knob1970

dingleberry1980

jubblies1991

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. f. 4^v Thy Ewes, that wont to haue blowen bags.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems 267 Those wicked Hags..whose writhled bags Fould feinds oft suck.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 42 So may thy Cows their burden'd Bags distend.

1784 J. Twamley Dairying Exemplified 97 Cows with good bags.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits v. 99 The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his surloin.

11. A sac (in the body of animal) containing honey, poison, etc. (Chiefly figurative)

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > pouch or receptacle > for fluid

baga1555

reservatory1670

reservoir1828

a1555 H. Latimer Serm. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1305/2 Yet there may remaine a bagge of rusty malice, twentie yere olde, in thy neighbours bosome.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 160 The hony bagges steale from the humble Bees.

a1700 J. Dryden Medal in Wks. (1882–92) IX. 457 The swelling poison of the several sects..Shall burst its bag.

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I ccxiv. 110 Hived in our bosoms like the bag o' the bee.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. iv. 37 While sting and poison-bag were left.

12.

a. A baggy place, a fold.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > [noun] > wrinkled condition > wrinkle or crease

rimpleeOE

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scrumple?a1513

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bag1587

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1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell ii. 163 Bagges, is in the wekes of the horse mouth.

b. spec. in Leather Industry (see quot. 1909).

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > imperfection

frieze1885

bag1909

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. 105 Bag, in leather-manuf., fullness in the middle of a skin which prevents it from lying out flat and smooth.

c. A fold of loose skin beneath the (human) eyes. Usually in plural.

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the world > life > the body > skin > fold of skin > [noun] > at eyes

epicanthus1833

bag1867

pouch1891

Mongolian fold1908

1867 W. Allingham Diary 10 June in H. Gernsheim J. M. Cameron (1948) 25 I want to do a large photograph of Tennyson and he objects! Says I make bags under his eyes.

1894 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Real Charlotte I. x. 147 The dark bags of skin under Julia Duffy's eyes became slowly red.

1910 J. Buchan Prester John xix. 316 I caught a glimpse of my face in it,..lined with blue bags below the eyes.

1938 H. G. Wells Apropos of Dolores iv. 174 His large grey eyes had if anything got larger and the lower lids lower. He has bags under them.

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13. plural. The stomach, entrails. (northern dialect and Scottish)

14. Coal Mining. A cavity filled with gas or water.

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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > other places in mine

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plat1828

stemplar1828

screen chamber1829

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pit house1866

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mill1878

blanket-sluice1881

stringing-deal1881

wagon-breast1881

brushing-bed1883

poppet-leg1890

slippet1898

stable1906

overcut1940

1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 138 An Account of a Bag of Water which was broke in his greatest Colliery.

1851 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade (ed. 2) Bag of Gas, a cavity found occasionally in fiery seams of coal, containing highly condensed gas.

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15. Nautical ‘ Bag of the Head-rails, the lowest part..or that part which forms the sweep of the rail.’ Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867.

16. figurative. Clothes that hang loosely about the wearer; (colloquial) trousers. plural.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > loose-fitting

bag1853

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose

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drawers1567

kelsouns1568

scaling1577

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calzoons1615

linings1631

swabber-slopsa1658

pantaloon1686

underslops1737

trousers1773

pyjamas1801

Cossacks1820

Turkish trousers1821

hakama1822

salwar1824

slacks1824

sherwal1844

overall1845

bag1853

sack-pants1856

bloomer1862

trouser skirt1883

petticoat trousers1885

mompe1908

step-in1922

bombachas1936

baggies1962

jams1966

palazzo1970

hose-

1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green vi. 51 Just jump into a pair of bags and Wellingtons.

1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) vii. 180 He..only appears stout because he puts himself into those bags (trousers).

1861 A. Trollope in Tales of all Countries 2nd Ser. 136 A pair of the loosest pantaloons—I might, perhaps, better describe them as bags.

1923 D. L. Sayers Whose Body? iv. 82 I'll run round and change at the club. Can't feed with Freddie Arbuthnot in these bags.

1927 D. L. Sayers Unnatural Death vii. 84 Just brush my bags down, will you, old man?

17. slang (originally U.S.). A disparaging term for a woman; (originally) a sexually promiscuous woman; (later) an unattractive or elderly woman; = baggage n. 6.

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the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun]

old wifeeOE

old womanOE

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monea1393

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crate14..

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mackabroine1546

grandam?1550

grannam1565

old lady1575

beldam1580

lucky1629

granny1634

patriarchess1639

runta1652

harridan1699

grimalkin1798

mama1810

tante1815

wifie1823

maw1826

old dear1836

tante1845

Mother Bunch1847

douairière1869

dowager1870

veteraness1880

old trout1897

tab1909

bag1924

crow1925

ma1932

Skinny Liz1940

old bag1947

old boot1958

tannie1958

LOL1960

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > promiscuity > person > woman

bat1607

tramp1922

bag1924

poule1924

blimp1926

punch board1955

slag1958

slagbag1966

hosebag1974

mama1980

slutbag1987

Essex girl1991

knob jockey2003

1924 P. Marks Plastic Age xviii. 202 I don't..chase around with filthy bags or flunk my courses.

1928 Amer. Speech Feb. 218 Say, Cress, who was that bag I saw you with yesterday?

1949 T. Rattigan Harlequinade (1953) 61 That's enough from you, you old bag!

1950 Penguin New Writing 40 45 ‘It's just like you, you dreary old bag,’ he would say to a blowsy old pro.

1961 M. Dickens Heart of London i. 77 I've never really known a pretty girl like you. At the training college they were all bags.

IV. Phrases.

18.

a. bag of bones: an emaciated living being. the whole bag of tricks: every expedient, everything (in allusion to the fable of ‘the Fox and the Cat’). Also bag of tricks, stock of resources; sometimes with play on other senses of ‘bag’ (old woman, etc.). in the bottom of the bag: remaining as a last resource or expedient.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > [phrase] > as a last resource

in the bottom of the bag1659

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having

staffc1405

notomy1487

rakea1529

crag1542

scrag1542

sneakbill1546

starveling1546

slim1548

ghost1590

bald-rib1598

bare-bone1598

bow-case1599

atomy1600

sneaksbill1602

thin-gut1602

anatomya1616

sharg1623

skeleton1630

raw-bone1635

living skeleton1650

strammel1706

scarecrow1711

rickle of bones1729

shargar1754

squeeze-crab1785

rack of bones1804

thread-paper1824

bag of bones1838

dry-bones1845

skinnymalink1870

hairpin1879

slim jim1889

skinny1907

underweight1910

asthenic1925

ectomorph1940

skinny-malinky1957

matchstick1959

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > resources

facultya1382

myance?a1513

moyen1547

facility1555

means1560

resource1611

foisona1616

wherewith1674

asset1677

stock-in-tradea1806

wherewithal1809

possibles1823

bag of tricks1841

potential1941

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource > a device, contrivance, or expedient > every expedient

the whole bag of tricks1874

1659 Reynolds in T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 447 If this be done, which is in the bottom of the bag, and must be done, we shall..be able to buoy up our reputation.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. iv. 64 There, get down stairs, little bag o' bones.

1841 E. Wright tr. La Fontaine Fables (ed. 2) xii. xviii. 314 But fox, in arts of siege well versed, Ransacked his bag of tricks accursed.

1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iv. iii. 204 I am almost ashamed to punish A bag of skin and bones.

1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 76 Bag of tricks, refers to the whole of a means towards a result. ‘That's the whole bag of tricks.’

1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 29 May 2/6 She relied largely for her acting on the exploitation of what is nothing but a bag of tricks.

1898 A. Bennett Man From North xvi. 152 I've had three 3 a.m. midwifery cases this week—forceps, chloroform, and the whole bag of tricks.

1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) iii. ii. §3 301 Learn the whole bag of tricks in six months.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vii. [Aeolus] 135 She was a nice old bag of tricks.

1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey iii. viii. 185 A being who completely robbed the world of its importance, ‘snooped’, as it were, the whole ‘bag of tricks’.

1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners xiii. 280 Men were all alike. A woman didn't have to carry a very big bag of tricks to achieve her purpose.

1942 ‘P. Wentworth’ Danger Point xl. 233 Fingerprints... A nice bag of tricks for our modern scientific police. You put 'em in a hat and shake 'em up, and then you put in your hand and pick your murderer.

1957 V. J. Kehoe Technique Film & Television Make-up iii. 37 The make-up kit is the artist's tool box and bag of tricks.

b. bag of mystery n. (usually in pl. bags of mystery) slang a sausage or saveloy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] > types of sausage

franchemyle1381

herbelade?c1390

haggisc1400

black puddinga1450

blood puddingc1450

bloodinga1500

liveringa1500

haggis pudding1545

white pudding1578

swine's pudding1579

hog's pudding1583

Bolognian sausage1596

bloodling1598

andouille1605

andouillet1611

cervelat1613

mortadella1613

polony1654

blacking1674

hacking1674

whiting1674

Oxford sausagec1700

saucisson1772

German sausage1773

saveloy1784

blood sausage1799

white hawse1819

liver sausage1820

black pot1825

chipolata1830

Bologna sausage1833

butifarra1836

mettwurst1836

Cambridge sausage1840

boudin1845

chorizo1846

German1847

liverwurst1852

salami1852

station-Jack1853

leberwurst1855

wurst1855

blutwurst1856

bag of mystery1864

Vienna sausage1865

summer sausage1874

wienerwurst1875

mealy pudding1880

whitepot1880

wiener1880

erbswurst1885

pepperoni1888

mystery bag1889

red-hot1890

weenie1891

hot dog1892

frankfurter1894

sav?1894

Coney Island1895

coney1902

garlic sausage1905

boloney1907

kishke1907

drisheen1910

bratwurst1911

banger1919

cocktail sausage1927

boerewors1930

soy sausage1933

thuringer1933

frank1936

fish sausage1937

knackwurst1939

foot-long1941

starver1941

soya sausage1943

soysage1943

soya link1944

brat1949

Vienna1952

kielbasa1953

Coney dog1954

tube steak1963

Weisswurst1963

Cumberland sausage1966

merguez1966

tripe sausage1966

schinkenwurst1967

boerie1981

'nduja1996

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 69.

1879 W. J. Barry Up & Down xvi. 163 A slice of bread was given with the ‘bag of mystery’, as some rowdies called the luscious saveloy.

1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 15/2 If they're going to keep running-in polony fencers for putting rotten gee-gee into the bags of mystery, I hope they won't leave fried-fish-pushers alone.

1921 H. Foston At Front xvi. 115 [Have you] any bags of mysteries, otherwise sausages?

1962 John o' London's 14 June 571/1 The bags of mystery or links of love are sausages.

c. Colloquial phrase in the bag (i.e. game-bag; see sense 9): (a) Australian and New Zealand (see quot. 1945); (b) (to be put) in the bag, (to be) taken prisoner; (c) (originally U.S.) virtually assured or secured, as good as in one's possession.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > [verb (intransitive)] > be taken captive

in the bag1900

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > certain prospect or possession > [adjective]

strongeOE

fasteOE

sure1418

cocksure?a1534

in the bag1900

gold-plated1913

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [adverb] > set to lose

in the bag1900

1900 J. Scott Tales Colonial Turf 33 The neddy was in the bag in the Cup; he was no trier.

1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. ix. 174 A horse set to lose a race is said to be in the bag.

1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast ii. 52 Unless I went out to the Front again and got put in the bag and sent to the same Boche prison.1956 D. M. Davin Sullen Bell ii. vii. 152 When you went in the bag the chaps probably said ‘Too bad about old Gus’.1922 San Francisco Call & Post 19 July 17 Yes, yes, yes, but listen to me—I get this from the jock himself—this is in the bag.1926 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 24 Sept. 1/2 After Tunney landed with that terrific right, the fight was in the bag.1929 Liverpool Daily Courier 4 Sept. 9/1 If half the members of a Talkie audience shudder every time a character on the screen says..‘It's in the bag’, the other half make a mental note of the expression for future use.1932 P. G. Wodehouse Hot Water i. 32 We're sitting pretty. The thing's in the bag.1943 B. J. Hurren Eastern Med. v. 51 Crete was ‘in the bag’ for Jerry if he wished to take it.1957 Economist 30 Nov. 765/1 The message..contains a frank warning that independence is not ‘in the bag’.

19. †to turn to bag and wallet: to become a beggar. to give (one) the bag to hold: to engage any one while taking the opportunity to slip away, to leave in the lurch. to give the bag to: to leave without warning (obsolete); also in modern dialect, to dismiss (a servant, etc.). Also to get the bag: to be dismissed; [Compare to give the sack n.¹] to let the cat out of the bag: to disclose the secret. to empty the bag (French vider le sac): to tell the whole story, finish the discussion.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > beg or be beggar [verb (intransitive)]

thigc1300

begc1384

crave1393

to go a-begged1393

prowl1530

to go (or have been) a begging1535

maund?1536

to bear the wallet1546

cant1567

prog1579

to turn to bag and wallet1582

skelder1602

maunder1611

strike1618

emendicate1623

mendicate1623

to go a-gooding1646

mump1685

shool1736

cadge1819

to stand pad1841

stag1860

bum1870

schnorr1875

panhandle1894

pling1915

stem1924

nickel-and-dime1942

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away from [verb (transitive)] > go away from suddenly or hurriedly

fleeOE

to give the bag to1582

fling1588

vamoose1847

jump1875

skip1884

to leave (a person) flat1902

blow1912

scarper1937

society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > disclose or reveal secrets

tell1537

blaba1616

to let the cat out of the bag1760

to blow the gab or gaff1834

to shoot off one's mouth1864

to give the show away1879

unload1904

to spill the beans1919

to shoot the works1922

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > deceive, delude [verb (transitive)] > leave in the lurch

to leave in the lash1573

to leave in the lurch1596

lurcha1651

to give (one) the bag to hold1793

society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (intransitive)] > dismiss or discharge > be dismissed or discharged

to get the bag1804

to get the sack1825

swap1862

to get the boot1888

to take a walk1888

to get the run1889

to get (or have) the swap1890

to get the (big) bird1924

to get one's jotters1944

1582 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1599) II. i. 161 The turning to bag and wallet of the infinite number of the poore people imploied in clothing.

1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. F To giue your maisters the bagge.

1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe iv. sig. G^v I feare our oares haue giuen vs the bag.

1647 Speedy Hue & Crie 1 He being sometime an Apprentice on London bridge..gave his Master the bag.

1760 London Mag. 29 224 We could have wished that the author..had not let the cat out of the bag.

1788 P. M. Freneau Misc. Wks. 414 He must give us the bag, Adhere to Old England, and sail with her flag.

1793 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 7 She will leave Spain the bag to hold.

1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 33 (note) ‘Gave him the bag.' An expression common with the lower classes, indicating that Miss Delia will not honour Mr. Damon with her company.

1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 92 Jonathan..trembled, sadly, all the way Lest he should get the bag, sir.

1823 W. Scott Peveril I. vi. 161 She gave me the bag to hold, and was smuggling in a corner with a rich old Puritan!

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 277 Sent away, with a flea in your ear; some girl has given you the bag.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. xiv. 300 This last epithet I choose to suppress, because it would let the cat out of the bag.

1870 etc. [see E.D.D.].

1871 W. S. Gilbert Palace of Truth i. 13 While publishing the truth He's no idea that he is doing so; And..he let innumerable cats Out of unnumbered bags.

1913 ‘I. Hay’ Happy-go-lucky i. 4 ‘Your fag, isn't he?’ ‘I gave him the bag two terms ago... Tiny has him now.’

20. bag and baggage n. originally a military phrase denoting all the property of an army collectively, and of the soldiers individually; hence the phrase, originally said to the credit of an army or general, to march out (with) bag and baggage (= French vie et bagues sauves), i.e. with all belongings saved, without surrender of anything; to make an honourable retreat. Now used depreciatively to express the absolute character of any one's departure: to clear out completely, ‘and a good riddance too!’ the bag and baggage policy: see last two quots.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > completely

bag and baggage1525

society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [adverb] > with honourable retreat

bag and baggage1525

1422 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1710) X. 206/2 (De salvo conductu) Cum armaturis..bonis..bogeis, baggagiis.]

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxiii. 59 We haue with vs all our bagges and baggages..that we haue wonne..by armes.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. I. cccxx. 497 So all the men of warre within departed with bag and baggage.

1544 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 47 The kynge gave them alle there lyffes and pardynd them to goo with bagge and bagges.

1580 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 922 To go safely with bag and baggage, never to return.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 158 Let vs make an honorable retreit, though not with bagge and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.

a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) ii. i. 617 To kick this ffellow..and send him downe stayres, with his Bag & Baggage.

1667 London Gaz. No. 163/2 Upon honorable conditions, marching off with Bag and Baggage, Drums beating, Colors flying.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 34 Bag and Baggage, said she, I'm glad you're going.

1876 W. E. Gladstone Bulgarian Horrors 61 The Turks..their Zaptiehs and their Mudirs..their Kaimakams and their Pashas, one and all, bag and baggage, shall, I hope, clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.

1882 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David VI. Ps. cxix. 115 The king sent them packing bag and baggage.

1882 Daily News 28 May 5/6 Cites the famous Bulgarian pamphlet, precognising the bag-and-baggage policy as evidence that Mr. Gladstone will never be a party to restoring Turkish authority.

Compounds

C1. General relations:

a. General attributive.

bag-fox n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [noun] > game turned out of bag

basket-hare1665

bag-fox1736

bag-wolf1862

bagman1875

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Vulpes > vulpes vulpes (fox) > hunted

customer1590

bag-fox1736

ringer1832

bagman1875

1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 217 Sometimes he is reserved alive, and hunted another Day, which is called a Bag-Fox.

b. Objective.

bag-bearer n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > one who has charge of or manages money

hoarder944

treasurerc1290

purse-bearerc1300

coffererc1330

pursera1450

boucherc1450

bowgerc1450

purse-masterc1450

thesaurer1473

expenditor1499

bowser1534

bursarya1552

bursar1587

stock-keeper1589

bag-bearer1598

bourser1685

sumptuary1789

money manager1874

investment manager1879

tizzy-snatcher1914

1598 S. Rowlands Betraying of Christ 24 Apostle once, increasing Christ's eleuen, Bagbearer, to the charge of purse assign'd.

bag-bearing n.

bag-carrier n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > transference > [noun] > conveying or transporting > action of carrying > one who carries > of specific thing

pannier-bearer1451

basket-bearer1530

bagman1531

burden-bearer1580

hamperman1631

budget-bearer1684

boat-bearer1706

card carrier1845

basket-carrier1849

bag-carrier1890

1890 J. Watson Confess. Poacher x. 137 I had arranged with a confederate to act as bag-carrier.

1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. iii. 197 A dwarf who carries a bag of ‘needments’. He is not a traitor, like the other bag-carrier Judas Iscariot.

bag-maker n.

bag-making n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [noun] > bag or collection of game

quarryc1400

emprisec1450

bag1486

pot-hunting1843

bag-making1870

pickup1897

1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Aug. 12 Flat moors..on which bagmaking becomes sheer business, and you have a tame monotony of sport.

bag-punching n. (cf. punch n.²)

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > specific exercises

breathing1605

breather1802

arm swing1859

setting-up drill1862

grasshopper march1884

lunge1889

push-up1897

sit-up1900

pull-up1901

deep-breathing1904

bag-punching1927

press-up1928

setting-up exercise1935

pullover1936

bear crawl1937

burpee1939

knee-bend1941

leg raise1944

dip1945

uddiyana1949

squat thrust1950

lateral1954

pull-down1956

aquacise1968

step-up1973

abdominal crunch1981

power walking1982

crunch1983

gut-buster1983

stomach crunch1986

1927 Daily Express 21 Sept. 1/2 Dempsey jogged some miles along the road yesterday, did bag-punching, etc.

1950 J. Dempsey Championship Fighting xxiv. 180 Bag-punching is another exercise that conditions and sharpens.

bag-snatcher n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > by snatching > specific

silk snatcher1785

bag-snatcher1908

tear-away1938

1908 Westm. Gaz. 20 Aug. 8/2 Sentencing a bag-snatcher..to three months with hard labour... Prisoner snatched away the satchel of..a nurse.

c. Similative and parasynthetic.

bag-bedded adj.

ΚΠ

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxix. 254 A night upon the ice, tented and bag-bedded.

bag-cheeked adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [adjective] > types of cheek > having

blob-cheeked1552

bright-cheekeda1560

plum-cheeked1598

chub-faced1602

white-cheekedc1602

chuffy1611

lantern-jawed1699

lockram-jawed1699

blubber-cheeked1711

chub-cheeked1715

lank-jawed1778

apple-faced1781

chubby-faced1826

apple-cheeked1827

lank-cheeked1838

bag-cheeked1839

poke-cheeked1843

maiden-cheeked1866

1839 T. Carlyle Chartism viii. 84 A plain..bag-cheeked..Lancashire man.

bag-like adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave > like specific object

camois1664

pouch-likea1676

scaphoidal1681

spoon-likea1686

umbilicated1693

umbilicate1698

saucer-shaped1753

boat-shaped1760

pouchy1786

cupped1796

urn-shaped1796

naviform1816

spoon-shaped1817

urn-like1826

vase-shaped1832

bag-shaped1836

basin-like1836

trough-like1839

urceiform1840

vase-like1840

saucered1847

bag-like1849

sac-like1849

pouch-shaped1854

basin-shaped1859

trough-shaped1871

bucketed1886

spooned1890

1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 1020/2 That skinny and bag-like part of its mouth which is under the jaw.

bag-shaped adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave > like specific object

camois1664

pouch-likea1676

scaphoidal1681

spoon-likea1686

umbilicated1693

umbilicate1698

saucer-shaped1753

boat-shaped1760

pouchy1786

cupped1796

urn-shaped1796

naviform1816

spoon-shaped1817

urn-like1826

vase-shaped1832

bag-shaped1836

basin-like1836

trough-like1839

urceiform1840

vase-like1840

saucered1847

bag-like1849

sac-like1849

pouch-shaped1854

basin-shaped1859

trough-shaped1871

bucketed1886

spooned1890

1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 969/1 A dilated bag-shaped crop.

C2. Special combinations:

bag-filter n. a filter made of a cloth bag.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > filtering or percolating > [noun] > filter or percolator > cloth or bag

strainer-cloth1444

hippocras bag?a1500

felt1527

filter1576

Hippocrates' bag1605

Hippocrates' sleeve1605

manica Hippocratis1651

hippocras sleeve1679

bag-filtera1877

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 209/2 Bag-filter, (sugar refining) a device sometimes used in clearing saccharine solutions of feculencies and impurities mechanically suspended therein.

1910 Encycl. Brit. X. 346/2 A crude method [of filtration] consists of straining the liquid through cotton or other cloth..formed into long narrow bags (‘bag-filters’).

bag-fox n. a fox brought alive in a bag to be turned out before the hounds.

ΚΠ

1814 C. Mathews Let. 1 Nov. in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1838) II. 319 They turned out a bag-fox and we had a good run of three miles.

† bag-granado n. Obsolete a grenade enclosed in a bag.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > grenade

trombe1562

grenade1591

grenado1611

granata1637

hand grenade1637

bag-granado1638

shell1647

glass-grenade1664

globe1672

flask1769

petrol bomb1903

rifle grenade1909

hairbrush1916

Mills1916

pineapple bomb1916

stick grenade1917

fragmentation bomb1918

pineapple1918

potato-masher grenade1925

spitball1925

Molotov cocktail1940

sticky bomb1940

stick-bomb1941

red devila1944

stun grenade1977

flash-bang1982

1638–48 G. Daniel Eclog. v. 238 These Bag-Granadoes flie Still to Advantage Garrisons' Revolt.

bag job n. U.S. slang an illegal search of a suspect's property by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, esp. for the purpose of copying or stealing incriminating documents, etc.; cf. black bag adj. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a).

ΘΚΠ

society > law > law enforcement > investigation of crime > [noun] > types of search

strip-search1947

body search1961

sweep1966

toss1970

bag job1971

1971 Time 11 Oct. 44/1 Bag job, in the U.S., an illegal search of a suspected spy's residence to obtain incriminating information.

1971 Time 25 Oct. 15/1 In the past, numerous spies..have been exposed by bag jobs.

1973 Telegraph (Brisbane) 25 Aug. 4/1 An [F.B.I.] agent..said he engaged in about a dozen illegal ‘black bag jobs’ during his career.

1980 Christian Sci. Monitor 19 Sept. 2/1 A US attorney told the jury to ‘say no to bag jobs’ during opening statements in the trial of two former FBI officials.

bag-muff n. a muff containing a pouch which serves as a bag.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for hands > [noun] > muff > types of

zibet-muff1685

oyster-barrel muff1703

bag-muff1884

granny muff1889

1884 Girl's Own P. 29 Nov. 138/2 The useful bag muff appears in..great varieties.

bag-net n. a bag-shaped net for catching fish, insects, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > net > other nets

stalker1389

pocketc1425

hoop-net1481

hose-net1554

gap-net1727

bag-net1777

hoop1882

skim-neta1884

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > bag-net

cod net1280

purse net1388

poke-net1442

poke1579

spirt-net1686

net bag1727

bag-net1777

fyke1832

1777 Travis in T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) IV. v. 14 Our fishermen use a bag-net fixed to an iron hoop.

1848 J. Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 vi. 321 A bag-net, which..secured the beetles.

bag-rod n. a fishing-rod which can be taken to pieces and carried in a case.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > rod > [noun] > types of rod

pole1577

telescope pole1675

fly-rod1684

dopper1688

whipper1688

bag-rod1787

telescope rod1820

salmon rod1841

greenheart1869

spinning-rod1870

loop-rod1885

roach pole1892

trunk-rod1893

sea-rod1902

1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling 11 These bag-rods..go up in a small compass.

bag-sleeve n. a sleeve tight at the wrist and baggy above.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > types of

poke1402

foresleeve1538

long sleeve1538

lumbard1542

puller out1543

maunch1550

hand sleeve1585

French sleeve1592

poke sleeve1592

puff1601

trunk sleeve1603

stock-sleeve1611

hoop-sleeve1614

puff sleevec1632

short sleeve1639

hanging sleeve1659

engageants1690

jockey-sleeve1692

pudding-sleeve1704

Amadis1814

gigot1824

leg of mutton1824

bishop sleeve1829

mutton-leg sleeve1830

balloon sleeve1837

gigot-sleeve1837

bag-sleeve1844

pagoda sleeve1850

mameluke sleeve1853

angel sleeve1859

elbow-sleeve1875

sling-sleeve1888

sleevelet1889

pagoda1890

bell-sleeve1892

kimono sleeve1919–20

dolman1934

1844 R. Hart Antiq. Norfolk xxii. 69 A sort of bag-sleeve, tight at the wrist.

bag-wolf n. (cf. bag-fox n.).

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the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [noun] > game turned out of bag

basket-hare1665

bag-fox1736

bag-wolf1862

bagman1875

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis lupus (wolf) > defined by habitat or condition

bag-wolf1862

snow-wolf1910

1862 M. Napier Mem. Life Visct. Dundee II. 151 No more bag-wolves to afford such sport.

C3. bag and spoon: used attributively to designate a type of dredging apparatus (see quot. 1940).

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society > occupation and work > equipment > earth-moving and excavating equipment > [noun] > dredging equipment

dredge1471

clam-shell1508

drag1611

steam dredge1801

dredging-machine1830

hedgehog1838

bag and spoon1840

hydrophore1842

dredger1863

gold dredge1881

gold dredger1897

suction dredge1901

bucket dredge1907

cutter-dredge1913

1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 30/1 Dredging with the common bag and spoon apparatus.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 70/2 Bag and spoon dredger, an implement consisting of a leather bag laced to a steel hoop;..used to dredge soft material.

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bag lady n. originally U.S. a homeless woman, often elderly, who carries her possessions in shopping bags; = shopping-bag lady n. at shopping n.² Compounds 2.

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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > female > homeless

toe-rag1875

toe-ragger1896

bag lady1972

crusty1990

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > female

hoboette1918

bag lady1972

shopping-bag lady1975

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > carrying belongings

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swagger1855

swagsman1869

swaggie1892

bagman1896

drummer1898

battler1900

bindle-man1900

bindle-stiff1900

bluey-humper1903

bag lady1972

bag woman1977

1972 S. R. Curtin Nobody ever died of Old Age vi. 85 Letty the Bag Lady..would pack all her valuables in two large shopping bags and carry them with her.

1977 New Yorker 17 Oct. 40/2 I did a bag-lady number on one of the platforms here in the bus station last year, and I almost got arrested.

1984 M. Amis Money 105 They even had a couple of black-clad bagladies sitting silently on straight chairs by the door.

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spec. A piece of luggage; a case, holdall, etc., in which one carries one's belongings from place to place. Frequently in plural: baggage.

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1607 A. Willet Harmonie vpon 1st Bk. Samuel xxi. 233 The instruments which were necessarie for their iourney, as their bagges and sachels.

1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1661) 36 Apostolicks..wandred up and down the Countreys, without staves, shooes, money, or bags.

1770 G. Baretti Journey London to Genoa I. x. 43 Every street-walker would give a pull to his bag, merely to rejoice themselves.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary xxvii Edie had arranged his various bags, and was bound for the renewal of his wandering life.

1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes xl They began to bend their steps towards Castle Boterel, whither they had sent their bags from Camelton.

1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxix. 445 A man knocked and came in with the luggage... Gudrun watched him put down the bags, in silence, then tramp heavily out.

1992 A. Walker Possessing Secret of Joy 142 I watched the two of them, chatting like old friends, go around to the boot to take out his bags.

2005 Olive Mar. (Rip-out Guide Suppl.) 2/4 Let the bellboy take your bags and twirl through the revolving door into an old-fashioned world.

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A small bag for carrying personal items, esp. a woman's handbag.

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1825 ‘R. Revel’ Winter Evening Pastimes 158 The ladies' characters, must be put in a reticule or bag; and those for the gentleman into a hat.

1873 ‘S. Coolidge’ What Katy did at School iii. 48 Tucking the railway guide into the shawl-strap, and closing her bag with a snap.

1937 D. Aldis Time at her Heels x. 225 Mary detoured to pick up her bag from the table.

1977 Woman & Home Nov. 154/2 Grace started to rifle through the contents of her bag.

2001 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 182/2 Who ever heard of a public relations woman who didn't have at least two cell phones in her bag?

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Chiefly Sport (esp. Boxing). A weighted, suspended bag (such as a punchbag) used to practise punches or kicks in training and exercise.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > punchbag

bag1858

punchbag1885

punchball1888

heavy bag1950

speedball1955

1858 Daily Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 7 Dec. 1/3 She stood looking at him as danced around the bag, busily punching its rotund sides.

1927 Daily Express 21 Sept. 1/2 Dempsey jogged some miles along the road yesterday, did bag-punching, etc.

1990 Trad. Karate Nov.–Dec. 8/1 Practise against a braced, suspended bag to get the feel of a correct impact since kicking the air alone will never help you to set up the technique properly.

1995 N. Blincoe Acid Casuals xxi. 159 The hall might have been large enough for fifty aerobickers if the ring was dismantled, the bags slung off their hooks.

2005 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 7 Mar. a6/2 He had a ‘fast bag’ to practice his boxing skills in his living room.

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A small packet containing a measured quantity of heroin or other illegal drug ready for sale; the quantity contained in such a packet.

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a quantity of > in packet

bindle1916

bag1957

1956 Illicit Narcotics Traffic: Hearings Comm. on Judiciary (84th Congress, 1st Sess.) viii. 4164 Bag, a morphine injection.]

1957 Post Tribune (Jefferson City, Missouri) 25 Nov. 24/2 The going price for heroin in Chicago is $3 a deck or bag.

1970 Time 20 July 15 In the argot of the drug world, it is ‘paraphernalia’: the necessary accouterments to merchandising heroin. The small glassine envelopes or ‘bags’, used to package heroin, are paraphernalia.

1990 R. Critchfield Among British iii. 208 He said the daily routines of a heroin user involved ‘getting up, hustling for money, buying heroin, smoking it, and then hustling for the next bag’.

2007 N.Y. Mag. 8 Oct. 40/2 Nights in ‘dope holes’ on 117th Street were spent clutching ‘wake-up bags’, packets of heroin needed ‘to get your ass out of bed so you could go into your daily flatfoot hustle’.

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In a balloon or non-rigid airship: the inflatable envelope for hot air or gas.

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1783 Monthly Rev. Dec. 552 They [sc. the Montgolfier brothers] formed a bag, or balloon, of linen cloth, lined with paper, nearly spherical, and measuring about 35 feet in diameter.

1853 National Mag. Aug. 162/1 The air being rarefied by the application of burning paper to the aperture of the balloon, the bag ascended to a height of seventy feet.

1925 Pop. Mech. Aug. 211 Evening is usually chosen for the start of a balloon race because the gas is cool and contracted, allowing much more to be forced into the bag.

1987 Pilot Apr. 24/3 Nott's balloon Endeavour will have a pumpkin-shaped bag roughly 130 feet in diameter.

2009 R. Kaprov & S. Kaprov Master GED 2010 320/1 If the balloon begins to descend too soon, the crew reignites the burner, sending another blast of lift-producing heat into the bag.

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bag of fruit n. [rhyming slang.] slang (originally Australian) a man's formal suit; cf. whistle and flute n. at whistle n. 1d.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun]

habita1420

standc1450

suitc1475

sluch1582

standard1631

rig-out1824

outfit1840

suiting1863

shape1886

rig-up1896

bag of fruit1924

ensemble1927

whistle and flute1931

vine1932

drape1945

1924 Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Bag of fruit, a suit.

1949 L. F. Freed Probl. of European Prostitution in Johannesburg iii. 107 For the sake of atmosphere he may change into a new ‘bag of fruit’, ie a new suit.

1962 D. McLean World turned Upside Down 45 His little grey-haired mother pulled the lapels... ‘Strike me roan!’ cried Skinny. ‘What sort of a bag of fruit is that?’

1973 B. Aylwin Load of Cockney Cobblers xvii. 67 Bag of fruit, suit.

2001 K. Perkins Dare to Dream xxi. 294 The Queen and Duke duly arrived, met by Ngaire in a stunning new outfit and Tom wearing his best bag of fruit.

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(not) to be one's bag slang (originally U.S.): (not) to match one's personal style, taste, or preference; (not) to form part of one's interest, preoccupation, or area of expertise. Usually in negative contexts. Cf. thing n.¹ 4d.

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1966 N.Y. Times 20 Nov. d13/2 They were trying to categorize me..as a racial satirist, but that's not my bag. Let's say I deal in universal human foibles.

1972 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. 26 June 73/1 A face-lift might not be your bag... Your problem could call for special reconstruction.

1988 M. Marrin Eye of Beholder xv. 105 I didn't think art was your bag.

1993 Options Aug. 112/4 Then there's golf—both hotels have their own courses—tennis, sailing, and hunting, shooting and fishing, if that's your bag.

2008 Independent 26 Jan. (Mag.) 47/1 If digging is not your bag then think about covering the area with black landscape fabric to suppress weeds.

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bag of wind.

a. Any object or bag-like container which is full of air; see wind-bag n. 1, 1c.In quot. 1593, the human body viewed as the receptacle of breath and life.

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the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] > condition of being inflated > inflating > that which is inflated

bag of wind1593

inflatable1954

1593 P. Stubbes Motiue to Good Wks. 9 Let vs cast away this filthie Philautia, this selfe loue, this ouerweening of our selues, and account of our selues as we are in deede, sackes of ashes, bagges of wind, bubbles of water, wormes meate, and no men.

1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music (ed. 2) I. 500 Speaking of Nero, the Greek writer says, that he played on the Flute with a bladder, or leathern bag of wind, under his arm.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iv, in Tales of My Landlord 1st Ser. II. 72 I am wearied wi' doudling the bag o' wind a' day.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxxiii. 407 Nor have there been wanting learned exegetists who have opined that the whale mentioned in the book of Jonah merely meant a life-preserver—an inflated bag of wind—which the endangered prophet swam to, and so was saved from a watery doom.

1889 Punch 22 June 308/2 I now turn me to the consideration of your ‘Foote-balle’. I have examined the apparatus..—the great leathern bag of wind which is kicked.

1945 Timberman 46 82 First of all, a tire ‘is just a bag of wind’ as one rubber executive put it.

2004 B. Bunch & A. Hellemans Hist. Sci. & Technol. 34 A bag-of-wind sail is a loose sail held at its corners.

b. In similative and figurative use, denoting something insubstantial, ephemeral, or worthless; a wholly vapid phenomenon or undertaking. Cf. wind n.¹ 15c.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless

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turdc1275

fille1297

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lead1303

skitc1330

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kitchen stuff1600

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countera1616

a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620

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dross1632

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nothingness1652

brimborion1653

stuff1670

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mud1706

caput mortuuma1711

snuff1778

twaddle1786

powder-post1790

traffic1828

junk1836

duffer1852

shice1859

punk1869

hogwash1870

cagmag1875

shit1890

tosh1892

tripe1895

dreck1905

schlock1906

cannon fodder1917

shite1928

skunk1929

crut1937

chickenshit1938

crud1943

Mickey Mouse1958

gick1959

garbo1978

turd1978

pants1994

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > insubstantial

triflec1290

vainc1330

winda1382

vapour1382

gossamer?a1400

visevase1481

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blathery1591

froth1594

bag of winda1599

moth1600

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tumour1630

windlestraw1637

vacuity1648

balloon1656

blank1678

breath bubble1835

nominality1842

fluff1906

cotton candy1931

a1599 R. Rollock Lect. Hist. Passion (1616) xli. 408 A man without faith, is as an emptie vessell, and as a bagge of winde.

1690 T. Burnet Answer E. Warren x. 47 If you take the first method, these superficial Mountains would be nothing but so many baggs of Wind.

1721 Coll. Lett. to Author London Jrnl. 18 He that gets a Hundred Thousand Pounds by a Bubble, that is, by selling a Bag of Wind to his credulous Countrymen, is a greater Idol in every Coffee-House in Town.

1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets v. 25 Is Society become wholly a bag of wind, then, ballasted by guineas?

1901 Meehan's Monthly Jan. 12/1 All tested were as hollow as a bag of wind!

2002 Independent 27 May 14/1 The bag of wind which was Labour's transport policy.

c. A person who speaks or writes at length but says little of substance or value; a pompously verbose speaker. Also: a loud-mouthed but ineffectual person. colloquial and derogatory. Cf. wind-bag n. 2.Sometimes, esp. in early use, as part of an extended metaphor.

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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boaster

yelper1340

avaunterc1374

braggerc1390

fare-makerc1440

seggerc1440

shakerc1440

vaunter1484

roosera1500

praterc1500

cracker1509

vouster?a1513

boaster1574

Thrasoa1576

braggarta1577

braver1589

glorioser1589

bragout1592

rodomont1592

braggadocio1594

gloriosoc1599

puckfist1600

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forthputtera1610

rodomontado1609

ostentator1611

fanfaron1622

potgun1623

thrasonist1626

cracka1640

vapourer1653

braggadocian1654

rodomontadist1655

charlatan1670

brag1671

rodomontade1683

gasconader1709

rodomontader1730

Gascon1757

spread eagle1809

bag of wind1816

penny trumpeter1828

spraga1838

gasser1855

blow-hard1857

blower1863

crower1864

gabber1869

flannel-mouth1882

punk-fist1890

skiter1898

Tartarin1903

blow1904

skite1906

poofter1916

trombenik1922

shooter of lines1941

fat-mouth1942

wide-mouth1959

Wheneye1982

trash talker1986

braggarist-

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] > one who indulges in

praterc1500

bumbard?a1513

babbler?1555

jabberer1678

bag of wind1816

haverel1825

haverer1825

windbag1827

clatfarta1930

natterer1959

1816 Maryland Gaz. 18 Jan. 1/2 ‘Vox et praeterea nihil.’ Mr. Stanley—Let me translate, sir—The gentleman is nothing but a bag of wind!

1851 Ladies' Repository Nov. 435/2 Throughout his ponderous volumes..he looks, for all the world, as he is, like a mere bag of wind—a scarecrow, to admonish others of the folly of similar depredations.

1899 M. Brown Wit & Humor Bench & Bar 375 May the divil fly away with you, you mealy-mouthed bag of wind!

1948 ‘G. Orwell’ Let. 22 Oct. in Coll. Ess., Journalism, & Lett. IV. (2000) 448 I think Sartre is a bag of wind and I am going to give him a good boot.

1961 Life 3 Feb. 66/2 Our 1st Lieut...is a bag of wind, detested by every man in the Co.

2002 C. F. Brown Under Green Tree ii. 28 That old bag of wind. She just talks, and always talking about me.

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bag-in-a-box: a plastic or foil pouch, usually containing wine, with a spigot through which the contents can be poured without admitting air into the bag, packaged in a sturdy cardboard box; frequently attributive.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > container or package for goods > [noun] > specific

woolpack1297

bag-in-a-box1943

pre-package1946

pre-pack1951

Tetra Pak1953

blister package1954

vacuum packaging1954

blister pack1964

ballotin1974

1943 Pop. Mech. Feb. 182/2 Cellophane bag-in-a-box containers carry heavy liquids for cooking, such as egg yolks and fluid chocolate.

1981 Canberra Times 23 July 18/5 Britain has discovered the wine cask. With the curious name of ‘bag-in-a-box’, the wine container, which for many years was the exclusive domain of Australians, has been launched in London with a big bang.

1989 Grocer 21 Jan. 209/3 Clifford's Dairy will be launching an extended life milkshake base..packaged in a bag-in-box container.

2006 Decanter June (Argentina 2006 Suppl.) 12/1 Historically at least, San Juan was one of the main sources of grape concentrate and so-called Tetrabrick wines (think bag-in-a-box), with little or nothing to recommend it to the quality-minded consumer.

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bag boy n. a (typically young) male assistant who carries a bag or bags for someone; (now esp.) an assistant in a supermarket or other shop who helps customers to pack and carry their purchases.

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1786 Morning Post 10 Apr. Jones's bag-boy was detected bending the spurs [of a fighting cock].

1872 All Year Round 17 Aug. 320/1 All the legal rout, serjeants in silk and stuff, clerks, bag-boys, attorneys, scriveners, assessors.

1877 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 4 Aug. 7/2 The maid-of-all-work, and..the page and bag-boy.

1915 P. Davis Street-land 165 ‘Bag-boys’ loiter about railway stations..at all hours, always ready and anxious to carry a traveling bag or suitcase for a tip.

1941 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 24 Sept. 1/1 The bagboy, making no further mistake, proffered the putter.

1964 J. D. MacDonald Deep Blue Goodby xi. 101 There is competition for bag-boy jobs in the supermarkets.

2005 N.Y. Times Mag. 18 Sept. 67/1 (advt.) Carry your own groceries to the car instead of letting the bag boy do it.

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bag limit n. Shooting, Angling, etc. a limit imposed on the number of birds, fish, or other game which may be shot or caught in a given period by an individual or group.

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1898 Horse & Hound 7 May 294/1 Average bag limit, 700 pheasants, 1000 partridges, 300 hares, and a large number of rabbits.

1907 Daily Chron. 17 May 9/4 The mere cost of a game license..is not likely to deter wealthy Americans, but there is always the bag-limit to fall back upon.

1959 J. W. Krutch Human Nature & Human Condition iv. 64 If a bag limit based on an accurate estimation of population density was set, that density would soon be reduced to an optimum.

2004 T. C. Boyle Inner Circle i. vi. 111 A hunter returning from a successful expedition with his bag limit of the usual birds.

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bag lunch n. chiefly U.S. a lunch, typically of sandwiches and other light food, carried to work, school, etc., in a paper bag; = brown-bag lunch at brown adj. Additions Cf. packed lunch at packed adj.¹ 1b.

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1895 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye 12 July 7/3 The invaders brought with them a very fine bag lunch.

1963 R. M. Cyert & J. G. March Behavioral Theory of Firm p. v Our research..began with a casual conversation over a pair of bag lunches.

1996 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Apr. k6 Paul's Place, a storefront where the homeless can get a bag lunch.

2002 Field & Stream Jan. 61/1 When gun writers are finally given a Greyhound ticket and a bag lunch, they are mere shells of human beings.

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bag person n. originally and chiefly U.S. a homeless person, esp. one who carries his or her possessions in disposable shopping bags.

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1981 N.Y. Times 28 June 34/2 A bag person couple were seen fornicating on the church steps one afternoon.

1994 R. Sukenick Doggy Bag 67 An ambiguously-aged bag person, dressed in ragged layers and rolling a shopping cart whose contents are bundled in sacking and plastic.

2005 S. Benítez Bag Lady 167 The confidences we..shared over the phone allowed me to see that each bag person has a unique story.

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bag people n. originally and chiefly U.S. homeless people, esp. those who carry their possessions in disposable shopping bags.

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1979 T. Williams Vieux Carré i. i. 7 They's lots of folks my age, black an' white, that's called bag people. They just wander round with paper bags that hold ev'rything they possess or they can collect.

1981 N.Y. Times 3 Mar. a19/4 The family had been found living in Grand Central Station, along with scores of other unfortunates—‘bag people’,..individuals discharged from state hospitals, and random lost souls.

2005 Church Times 11 Mar. 11/5 We shall..turn into two mad old bag people.., wheezingly overcoming our enormous bulk to pick up litter and push back supermarket trolleys wherever we go.

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bag stuffer n. originally and chiefly U.S. an advertising leaflet or similar piece of promotional material handed out to shoppers or placed in shopping bags alongside goods purchased; cf. stuffer n. 3.

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1960 Ada (Okla.) Evening News 11 Sept. 9/3 Bombarding the public with newspaper ads, radio and TV messages, posters, bag stuffers and mailers.

1982 N.Y. Times 23 Apr. b1 As the vote approaches... supermarkets have opposed it through ‘bagstuffer’ leaflets in their stores, and notices in their advertising supplements.

2012 P. C. Sansevieri 52 Ways to sell More Books! xv. 51 You might be able to drop the bookmarks (or bag stuffers) off at the nearby stores to see if they'll help promote the event.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

bagv.¹

Brit.

/baɡ/, U.S.

/bæɡ/

Etymology: < bag n.

1. intransitive.

a. To swell out as a bag, to bulge; Nautical to drop away from the direct course, to sag.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > be or become protuberant [verb (intransitive)]

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embossc1430

bagc1440

bossc1449

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belly1627

heave1629

bulge1679

swell1679

bud1684

pod1806

bilge1849–52

sag1853

knucklec1862

poocha1903

society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > drop away from direct course

to fall off1569

yaw1584

sag1633

bag1836

to break off1867

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 21 Baggyn, or bocyn owte, Tumeo.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. x. 211 A corner of Ephraim, which baggeth into the south.

1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 142 Sometimes one side of the ear is good corn, and the other bags..and..will be smutty.

1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. (J.) The skin..bagged, and had a porringer full of matter in it.

1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer II. ix. 115 He was bagging to leeward, like a..barge laden with a haystack.

b. To hang loosely like clothes that are too big. Said esp. of trousers which become out of shape at the knees.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [verb (intransitive)] > hang or sit in specific way

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frouncec1400

poke?a1425

to hang by geometry1584

sag1592

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [verb (intransitive)] > of trousers: become out of shape

bag1893

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 265 Coat, which bagged loosely about him.

1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 205 Dingy embroidered trappings..seen bagging upon the wooden effigies.

1893 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 293/1 A trouser-leg is more obstinate in its ugliness. If tight it bags at the knees.

1913 ‘A. R. Hope’ Half & Half Trag. 32 The Captain of the school has a pair of new breeches..; but they bag at the knees.

†2. intransitive. To be pregnant. (Also to be bagged.)

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > be pregnant [verb (intransitive)]

goOE

to go with childc1300

baga1400

gravidate1623

breed1629

(to be) in an interesting condition1748

gestate1883

expect1906

infanticipate1934

a1400 Sir Perc. 717 The mere was bagged with fole.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 442/2 I bagge, as a doe dothe that is with faune..Se howe yonder doe is bagged.

1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxx. 132 Well Venus shortlie bagged, and ere long was Cupide bread.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xxxiv. 862 The female being bagd.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 728 The females, or does..will conceive and be bagged.

3. transitive. To cause to swell or bulge; to cram full.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > make protuberant [verb (transitive)]

bossc1380

embossc1475

bag1582

belly1609

womb?1623

bumpa1680

protuberate1778

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hump1840

bulge1865

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 28 Thee mischeuus engyn, Ful bagd with weapons.

1620 Eccl. Proc. Durh., Newcastle-on-T. The chest..was bagd up with monye.

1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.7) i. 408 How doth an unwelcome dropsie..bagge up the eyes.

1758 J. Smeaton in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 204 Almost all the lights [i.e. windows] in the church, tho' not broke were bagged outward.

4. transitive. To put into a bag or bags. to bag up: to put up in a bag; to shut or store up generally.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into or as into other specific receptacles

sackc1405

pokea1425

pipe1465

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impoke1611

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desk1615

pot1626

cooper1746

kit1769

vat1784

pannier1804

vial1805

flask1855

tub1889

ampoule1946

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > in or as in other specific receptacle or enclosure

casea1525

to case up1566

chamber1568

bag1570

embower1580

cistern1587

bower1599

casket1603

entemple1603

immould1610

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incave1615

chest1616

enchest1632

intrunk1633

labyrinth1637

caverna1640

cabinetc1642

ark1644

to box in1745

lantern1789

cauldron1791

cave1816

pocket1833

castle1871

the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > in a receptacle > specific

pokea1400

barrel1466

bag1570

bottle1594

chest1616

vat1784

tank1900

1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 22^v Good husbandry baggeth vp golde in his chest.

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. xiv. f. 113^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I They [sc.saffron chives] are dried and pressed into cakes, & then bagged up.

1711 Act in London Gaz. No. 4874/1 The precise Day..on which..they shall Bag..their Hops.

1798 W. Hutton Life 12 I undressed, bagged up my things in decent order, and prepared for rest.

1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 1 Stopping..to bag a specimen.

5. To put game killed into a bag; also, to kill game (without reference to the bag). Also absol.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > kill animal [verb (transitive)]

slayc1000

slaughter1535

kill1560

to bring down1768

bag1814

mop1859

murder1863

beef1869

cull1889

carcass1906

harvest1947

1814 Monthly Mag. 37 238 To allow the royal sportsman to bag more birds than himself.

1844 P. Hawker Instr. Young Sportsmen (ed. 9) 148 To bag a dozen head of game without missing.

1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany ix. 150 My friend thus bagged two wolves.

1890 F. D. Lugard Diary (1959) I. 135 In the evening I again hit several animals by the unanimous verdict of my men, but did not bag.

6. colloquial.

a. To seize, catch, take possession of, steal. To add to one's ‘bag’ (bag n. 9). figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)]

gripea900

afangOE

to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)OE

repeOE

atfonga1000

keepc1000

fang1016

kip1297

seize1338

to seize on or upon1399

to grip toc1400

rapc1415

to rap and rendc1415

comprise1423

forsetc1430

grip1488

to put (one's) hand(s) on (also in, to, unto, upon)1495

compass1509

to catch hold1520

hap1528

to lay hold (up)on, of1535

seisin?c1550

cly1567

scratch1582

attach1590

asseizea1593

grasp1642

to grasp at1677

collar1728

smuss1736

get1763

pin1768

grabble1796

bag1818

puckerow1843

nobble1877

jump1882

snaffle1902

snag1962

pull1967

1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris vi Who can help to bag a few, When Sidmouth wants a death or two.

1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. iv. 304 The idea of being led up to the Doctor..for bagging fowls.

1861 F. M. Müller in Sat. Rev. 23 Feb. 197/1 A stray story may thus be bagged in the West-end of London.

1879 Bell's Life in London 28 June 4/2 Whom Mr. Hornby very smartly ‘bagged’ at mid-on.

1936 J. Dos Passos Big Money 72 He was almost bagged by a taxicab crossing the street.

1940 I. Halstead Wings of Victory i. ii. 59 Pilot Officer Elliott..has now bagged two.

1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 11 To bag, bagged, to hit by aerial gunfire; shot down.

b. To claim; reserve. Used esp. by children (see quot. 1914 and bags I phr.). colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (transitive)] > claim > claim for oneself

ownOE

vendicate1531

brand1596

vindicate1725

bag1914

1914 Concise Oxf. Dict. Add. 1045/2 Bag, (also, in school slang) claim on the ground of being the first to claim (I b., but usu. bags I or bags, first innings!).

1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 56 I'm going to bag the best chair.

1948 R. A. Knox Mass in Slow Motion vii. 68 The other girl bagging the hot-water pipes first.

1968 Listener 29 Feb. 269 I bags be Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

7. To dismiss, discharge (a person). Cf. sack v.¹ 5a. Cf. bag n. 19.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss or discharge

to put awaya1387

discharge1428

dismiss1477

to put out of wages1542

discard1589

to turn away1602

to put off1608

disemploy1619

to pay off1648

to pay off1651

to turn out1667

to turn off1676

quietus1688

strip1756

trundle1794

unshop1839

shopc1840

to lay off1841

sack1841

drop1845

to give (a person) the shoot1846

bag1848

swap1862

fire1879

to knock off1881

bounce1884

to give (a person) the pushc1886

to give (a person) the boot or the order of the boot1888

bump1899

spear1911

to strike (a medical practitioner, etc.) off the register1911

terminate1920

tramp1941

shitcan1961

pink slip1966

dehire1970

resize1975

to give a person his jotters1990

1848 Chaplain's Rep., Preston House of Correction 61 The master told him if he did not mind his work he would ‘bag’ him.

1895 W. Westall Sons of Belial II. xxii. 83 ‘Not have me at th' shop!..You surely wouldn't bag me?.. Bagged, beggared, and disinherited!’ he moaned.

1895 W. Westall Sons of Belial II. xxii. 85 I'll work for nowt. Only don't bag me just like a common hand.

8. to bag school, to play truant. Also to bag it. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > [verb (intransitive)] > to play truant

to play truant1560

mitch1580

mooch1622

to trig it1796

plunk1808

minch1836

wag1847

to play hookey1848

to hop the wag1861

to play (the) wag1861

to hook Jack1877

to bag school1934

to go on the hop1959

1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) vii. 203 She did not report him on Sunday afternoons when he ‘bagged it’ to go to a ball game.

1948 Philadelphia Bulletin 15 Jan. 14 Threatening him with castor oil, when he seemed set to bag school, never did any good.

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transitive. To capture, arrest, or imprison (a criminal, enemy soldier, etc.). colloquial.In quot. 1824, used punningly on sense 5.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)]

beclosec1000

setc1100

steekc1175

prison?c1225

adightc1275

imprison1297

laya1325

keepc1330

presentc1380

locka1400

throwc1422

commise1480

clapc1530

shop1548

to lay up1565

incarcerate1575

embar1590

immure1598

hole1608

trunk1608

to keep (a person) darka1616

carceir1630

enjaila1631

pocket1631

bridewell1733

bastille1745

cage1805

quod1819

bag1824

carcerate1839

to send down1840

jug1841

slough1848

to send up1852

to put away1859

warehouse1881

roundhouse1889

smug1896

to bang up1950

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)]

at-holda1230

attacha1325

resta1325

takec1330

arrest1393

restay?a1400

tachec1400

seisinc1425

to take upa1438

stowc1450

seize1471

to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515

deprehend1532

apprehend1548

nipa1566

upsnatcha1566

finger1572

to make stay of1572

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embar1647

nap1665

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bone1699

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do1784

touch1785

pinch1789

to pull up1799

grab1800

nick1806

pull1811

hobble1819

nail1823

nipper1823

bag1824

lag1847

tap1859

snaffle1860

to put the collar on1865

copper1872

to take in1878

lumber1882

to pick up1887

to pull in1893

lift1923

drag1924

to knock off1926

to put the sleeve on1930

bust1940

pop1960

vamp1970

1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI lxii. 95 The constable..Had bagged this poacher upon Nature's manor.

1864 H. R. Berkeley Four Years in Confederate Artillery (1961) 73 About 1 p.m. our boys brought out an entire Yankee regiment they had bagged.

1919 T. Kelly What Outfit? 180 ‘Those guys sure bagged some Boches,’ and the guard picked up a faster step with his prisoners.

1965 C. Brown Manchild in Promised Land i. 16 They were both bagged..for smoking pot in front of the police station.

2001 Time 22 Oct. 46/2 Attorney General Robert Kennedy used the ‘spitting on the sidewalk’ strategy—prosecuting small-time offenses to bag big-time suspects.

Draft additions January 2010

colloquial (originally U.S.). To cancel, discontinue, or abandon (something). Frequently in to bag it. Cf. bin v. Additions, ditch v.¹ 6c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > cancel a projected action

to call off1620

scrub1828

yank1940

bag1962

1962 J. E. Quirk No Red Ribbons 280 He's going to close the shop and tell the union to bag it.

1976 N.Y. Post 23 Dec. 28 If I were you, I'd ask my husband to bag the deal. And on the double.

1986 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 12 Aug. 10/6 Smokers are encouraged to loosen the bonds that attach them to cigarettes. Then if they successfully ‘bag the fag’ for two months, the prizes are good health and the chance to win a..holiday.

1995 On Edge Aug. 69/1 Ben Moon has bagged his Kilnsey project (for the time being), it's simply too hard, particularly as Ben is suffering with ‘bad fingers’.

2004 Wall St. Jrnl. (Central ed.) 12 Jan. a1/3 Joe White unveils five of the latest concept cars from last week's Detroit auto show, and you can vote to ‘bag it’ or ‘build it’.

Draft additions October 2009

transitive. Medicine (chiefly North American). To ventilate (a patient) using a collapsible bag containing air or oxygen.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > apply type of treatment [verb (transitive)] > artificially ventilate

ventilate1919

bag1964

1964 Jrnl. Albert Einstein Med. Center 12 258 Should it be difficult to effect adequate ventilation, other methods are employed, one of which is the use of a breathing bag, a small plastic oropharyngeal airway and face mask—or in anesthesia jargon, 'bagging the patient'.

1969 P. Sunshine in J. Dancis Idiopathic Respiratory Distress Syndrome (National Inst. Child & Human Devel.) iii. 100 When a baby is doing poorly, we may ‘bag’ him for five minutes.

1988 Yankee Dec. 106/1 You might have to massage his ribs, and if that doesn't work, we ‘bag’ them—give them oxygen.

1995 Hosp. News Jan. 6/1 ‘Bag him,’ cries out the first attendant. The patient is put on oxygen.

Draft additions June 2006

transitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly Australian). To criticize or disparage.

ΚΠ

1969 [implied in: Daily Tel. (Sydney) 20 Mar. 6/6 In the last couple of decades the poor old Poms have taken such a bagging from the rest of the world. (at bagging n.¹ Additions)].

1975 Australian (Sydney ed.) 11 Nov. 10/2 Sigley is also ‘bagged by the blokes’. He says the world is full of big-noters who reckon if a little fat guy can stand up there and talk for an hour then they can too.

1989 Time Off (Brisbane) 2 Mar. 16/1 The left side of my brain is yelling ‘It's crap, it's crap, bag it!’, which would be easy enough to do if the right side didn't persist in reminding me that at times this damn film had me rolling in my seat with laughter.

1994 RIP June 6/1 The wusses currently bagging Dave Mustaine of Megadeth.

2000 N. Earls Perfect Skin (2001) 38 She bags the shit out of you in emails.

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单词	bag
释义	bagn. Brit. /baɡ/, U.S. /bæɡ/ Forms: Middle English–1600s bagge, 1500s–1600s bagg, Middle English– bag. Etymology: Early Middle English bagge : compare Old Norse baggi ‘bag, pack, bundle’ (not elsewhere in Germanic); also Old French bague , Provençal bagua baggage, medieval Latin baga chest, sack. The English was possibly from the Old Norse; but the source of this, as well as of the Romanic words, is unknown; the Celtic derivation suggested by Diez is not tenable: Gaelic bag is from English. Of connection with Germanic balgi-z , Gothic balgs* , Old English bęlg , bælg , bælig , whence belly n., bellows n., and the cognate Celtic bolg, balg, there is no evidence. I. General sense. 1. a. A receptacle made of some flexible material closed in on all sides except at the top (where also it generally can be closed); a pouch, a small sack.green bag, blue bag: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] fetlesc893 pougheOE codOE bag?c1225 pokec1300 scripc1300 swag1303 pocket1350 pursec1390 sacketc1440 skyrsaya1500 scrippagea1616 sac1814 savoy bag1854 keister1882 sack1904 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 129 Hit is beggilde richte to beore bagge onbacke. burgeise to beore purs. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 129 Trusses & purses. baggen & packes. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. 41 Til heor Bagges and heore Balies weren faste I-crommet. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 21 Bagge, or poke: Sacculus. 1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.ii^v Haue fyue or syxe bagges for your Ipocras to renne in, &..basyns to stande vnder your bagges. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xvii. 40 And put them in the shepardes bagge which he had. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxi. 51 Any man that putteth himselfe into the enemies Port, had need of Argus eyes, and the wind in a bagge. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §6 Passing it through a woolen bagg. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 138 He would usually take three or four worms out of his bag . View more context for this quotation a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 26 Our English By-word to express such betwixt whom there is apparent odds of strength, He is able to put him up in a bagge. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 4 The younger people,..With bag and basket,..Went nutting. b. A base in baseball (see quot. 1857). U.S. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball ground > [noun] > base base1848 first base1848 second base1848 third base1848 second1861 first1864 bag1873 sack1914 1857 Spirit of Times 28 Feb. 420/3 The first, second, and third bases shall be canvas bags, painted white, and filled with sand or saw-dust.] 1873 Forest & Stream 20 Nov. 231/1 In this inning, through error, the Princetons succeeded in getting the bags full, with no men out. 1917 C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan xiii. 177 Hunt was two yards from the bag when the ball reached third base. c. figurative. A preoccupation, mode of behaviour or experience; a distinctive style or category; esp. a characteristic manner of playing jazz or similar music. Cf. bag of tricks at sense 18a. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > occupation or preoccupation preoccupation1844 bag1960 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [noun] > style of performing rumblante1775 jazzification1924 in the groove1932 bag1960 karaoke1977 scratch1982 scratching1982 scratch-mixing1987 1960 J. Hendricks in D. Cerulli et al. Jazz Word (1962) 140 Lack of acceptance is a drag... Man, that's really in another bag. 1962 Jazz Jrnl. Mar. 30 ‘Bag’ is a current piece of trade jargon for hip musicians, and means something between a personal style and a body of work. 1966 Sunday Times 13 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 35/4 ‘His bag is paper sculpture’, ‘she's in a folk-song bag right now’. 1966 Crescendo Dec. 16/1 Singing blues with Basie is another kind of bag. 2. With various substantives defining its purpose, the two words being hyphened, as air-, bread-, cloak-, game-, mail-, money-, post-, soot-, travelling-. See also carpet-bag n., nosebag n., wind-bag n. ΚΠ 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 3. ¶8 The Hill of Mony Bags, and the Heaps of Mony. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 132. ⁋1 His Cloke-bag was fixed in the Seat of the Coach. 1716 in London Gaz. No. 5411/4 Pistol-Bags of grey Cloth. 1782 A. Monro Ess. Compar. Anat. (ed. 3) 60 in Monro's Anat. Human Bones (new ed.) The construction and dilatation of the air-bag. 1814 T. Moore Twopenny Post Bag 284 The honour and delight of first ransacking the Post Bag. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xii. 195 There's nothing about bread-bags in the articles of war..sir. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iv. v. 262 Our ‘redoubts of cotton-bags’ are taken. 1862 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (ed. 9) 220 Three feeds in the corn-bag. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies i. 18 Not if it's in the bottom of the soot-bag. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 217 Travelling-bags..steamer bags, tourists' bags, railroad bags, pic-nic bags, dress-suit bags, hand bags, shopping bags, brief bags. II. Specific uses. 3. = Money-bag, purse. ΚΠ 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 284 Be so the bagge and he [the avarous] accorden, Him reccheth nought what men recorden Of him. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 196/2 Bagge, a purse. 1572 Lament Lady Scot. in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 249 Gif sum sect knaw that they haue geir or baggs. 1596 Bp. W. Barlow tr. L. Lavater Three Christian Serm. i. 120 Laying the payment..vpon their parentes bagges. 1611 Bible (King James) John xii. 6 Because he was a thief, and had the bag . View more context for this quotation 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 230 A wealthy foole doth in vaine hope by all his bagges to purchase wisedome. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 48 The covetous man loves to count over his bags. †4. poetic in plural. Bagpipes. Obsolete. Cf. pipe n.¹ 1c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > bagpipe bagc1275 stivec1290 cornemusec1384 musettea1393 bagpipec1405 pair1422 pipec1450 muse1484 drone1502 lilt-pipea1525 great pipe1592 miskin1593 Highland pipe1599 small-pipes1656 piffero1724 Highland bagpipe1728 zampogna1740 union pipes1788 Lowland pipes1794 pibroch1807 piob mhor1838 gaita1846 sack pipe1889 set1893 biniou1902 uillean pipes1906 c1275 Mapes Body & Soul 50 This pipers that this bagges blewen. 1790 Scots Songs II. 36 Then to his bags he flew wi' speed, About the drone he twisted. 5. A small silken pouch to contain the back-hair of a wig; cf. bag-wig n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > wig > bag for bag1702 1702 London Gaz. No. 3864/4 A short man..wears a Peruke ty'd up in a Bag. 1793 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 487 It was understood..that gentlemen should be dressed in bags. 1806 A. Duncan Nelson's Funeral 13 Two attendants..in full mourning dress, with black gowns, swords, and bags. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vi. vii. 110 He cannot..change the graceful French bag into the strict Prussian queue in a moment. 6. A measure of quantity for produce, varying according to the nature of the commodity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units > bag or sack as unit pokec1300 sack1314 pocket1350 quarter-sackc1422 mailc1503 bag1679 sugar-bag1963 1679 W. Bedloe Narr. Horrid Popish Plot 15 Removing some Baggs of Hopps. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A Bag of Almonds..is about 3 Hundred Weight. 1845 Morning Chron. 22 Nov. 5/2 Potatoes..There are three bushels to the bag. 7. a. = Mail-bag, post-bag; mail. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > equipment for sending or delivering mail > [noun] > mail-bag letter baga1655 bag1702 postbag1706 mailbag1812 pouch1833 mail pouch1843 mail sack1869 1702 London Gaz. No. 3814/4 Write by Ormskirk Bag. 1781 W. Cowper Let. 23 May (1979) I. 483 The Boy has lost the Bag in which your Letter must have been. 1814 T. Moore Twopenny Post Bag 283 The Bag from which the following Letters are selected. b. A diplomatic bag. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > equipment for sending or delivering mail > [noun] > mail-bag > diplomatic bag bag1816 diplomatic bag1956 pouch1958 1816 H. Brougham Let. in H. Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I. xi. 252 I think it better to trust this to the post than to any of their d—d bags. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Let. 15 Mar. (1946) III. 25 When Wm. Grey goes to Paris you'll have the use of the bag again. 1964 Times 6 July 11/3 It [sc. reciprocity] should mean..that embassies and bags are inviolate. †8. Medicine. A kind of poultice. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > poultice, plaster, or compress plasterOE clydec1325 emplastera1382 entretea1400 pottagea1400 poulticea1400 faldellac1400 treatc1400 Gratia Dei?a1425 magdaleon?a1425 strictorya1425 grace of Godc1450 emplastrum?1541 malagma?1541 sparadrap1543 spasmadrap?a1547 plasture?1550 mustard plaster1562 cataplasm1563 oint-plaster1578 quilt1583 compress1599 compression1599 diachylum-plaster1599 pulment1599 pulvinar1599 frontlet1600 sinapism1601 epithemation1615 diapalma1646 opodeldoc1646 attraction1656 treacle plaster1659 melilot emplaster1676 stay1676 oxycroceum1696 melilot plaster1712 adhesive1753 bag1753 mustard poultice1765 soap plaster1789 water dressing1830 poor man's plaster1833 compressor1851 spongiopiline1851 vinegar-poultice1854 water-strapping1854 pitch-plaster1858 jacket poultice1862 mustard leaf1869 mustard paper1874 piline1874 plaster-mull1890 mustard cloth1897 plaster-muslin1899 antiphlogistin1901 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Bag..a kind of fomentation..of proper ingredients, inclosed in a bag. 9. Shooting. = Game-bag; hence, the contents of a game-bag, the quantity of fish or game however large (embracing e.g. elephants and buffaloes) killed at one time; the produce of a hunting, fishing, or shooting expedition. figurative. Hence in plural (slang), much, many, ‘heaps’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [noun] > bag or collection of game quarryc1400 emprisec1450 bag1486 pot-hunting1843 bag-making1870 pickup1897 the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product > produce, yield, or return gettinga1382 increasingc1384 fruitc1450 increase1560 growth1580 increment1593 brood1600 return1614 produce1650 improvement1706 out-turn1801 bag1858 production1878 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount felec825 muchc1230 good wone1297 plentyc1300 bushelc1374 sight1390 mickle-whata1393 forcea1400 manynessa1400 multitudea1400 packc1400 a good dealc1430 greata1450 sackful1484 power1489 horseloadc1500 mile1508 lump1523 a deal?1532 peckc1535 heapa1547 mass1566 mass1569 gallon1575 armful1579 cart-load1587 mickle1599 bushelful1600–12 a load1609 wreck1612 parisha1616 herd1618 fair share1650 heapa1661 muchness1674 reams1681 hantle1693 mort1694 doll?1719 lift1755 acre1759 beaucoup1760 ton1770 boxload1795 boatload1807 lot1811 dollop1819 swag1819 faggald1824 screed1826 Niagara1828 wad1828 lashings1829 butt1831 slew1839 ocean1840 any amount (of)1848 rake1851 slather1857 horde1860 torrent1864 sheaf1865 oodlesa1867 dead load1869 scad1869 stack1870 jorum1872 a heap sight1874 firlot1883 oodlings1886 chunka1889 whips1888 God's quantity1895 streetful1901 bag1917 fid1920 fleetful1923 mob1927 bucketload1930 pisspot1944 shitload1954 megaton1957 mob-o-ton1975 gazillion1978 buttload1988 shit ton1991 1486 Bk. St. Albans B iij Ye most take a partrich in yowre bagge. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 196/2 A fauconner's bagge, gibissière. 1858 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 16 Mar. (1860) I. xxi. 348 The philanthropists who were cheering each other with the thought that there was sure ‘to be a good bag at Lucknow’, will be disappointed. 1863 J. H. Speke Jrnl. Discov. Source of Nile iii. 36 ‘The bags’ we made counted two brindled gnu, four water-boc, one pallah-boc, and one pig. 1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies i. 84 The chance of a brace or two of game less in your own bags in a day's shooting. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling i. 22 The artist in roach-fishing alone will make fair bag on an indifferent day. 1900 Daily News 9 June 5/5 Our bag was 4 engines and 84 trucks, with a quantity of coal. 1917 P. Gibbs Battles of Somme 105 ‘We took bags of ‘em [sc. Germans],’ said an officer. 1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 9 Bags, plenty; a large number. 1919 J. B. Morton Barber of Putney xiii. 209 It's not gay, this life, but it might be bags worse. 1919 J. B. Morton Barber of Putney xvii. 285 There's bags of good names, and yet blokes go an' call their kids Ermyntrude. 1930 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 96 Bags, plenty, lots. E.g. ‘Got any bully?’—‘Yes, bags of it.’ And especially bags of room. 1930 C. V. Grimmett Getting Wickets i. 32 It was with Prahran that I recorded my big successes in club cricket, my ‘bags’ in four seasons being 67, 39, 68 and 56 wickets respectively. 1940 I. Halstead Wings of Victory i. ii. 56 What his personal ‘bag’ was I don't know—certainly it was over twenty. 1945 R. L. Seddon Whims of W.A.A.F. 14 With ‘bags’ of ambition. 1955 Times 19 Aug. 2/5 A retrospective exhibition..an exhibition of drawings..and now a film..this is Picasso's ‘bag’ for the summer of 1955. 1962 A. Wesker Chips with Everything i. i. 12 We 'ad bags o' fun, bags o' it. figurative.1881 W. Harcourt Speech at Glasgow 26 Oct. Lord Salisbury and Sir S. Northcote..had a rattling day at Newcastle and Beverley—but I ask myself what is their bag? III. Transferred senses; bag-like objects. 10. An udder, a dug. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > udder uddera1000 yure1483 dug1530 bag1579 ewer1787 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun] titOE breastOE mammaOE pysea1400 mamellec1450 dug1530 duckya1533 bag1579 pommela1586 mam1611 Milky Way1622 bubby?1660 udder1702 globea1727 fore-buttock1727 tetty1746 breastwork?1760 diddy1788 snows1803 sweets1817 titty1865 pappy1869 Charleys1874 bub1881 breastiec1900 ninny1909 pair1919 boobs1932 boobya1934 fun bag1938 maraca1940 knockers1941 can1946 mammaries1947 bazooms1955 jug1957 melon1957 bosoms1959 Bristols1961 chichi1961 nork1962 puppies1963 rack1968 knob1970 dingleberry1980 jubblies1991 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. f. 4^v Thy Ewes, that wont to haue blowen bags. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems 267 Those wicked Hags..whose writhled bags Fould feinds oft suck. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 42 So may thy Cows their burden'd Bags distend. 1784 J. Twamley Dairying Exemplified 97 Cows with good bags. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits v. 99 The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his surloin. 11. A sac (in the body of animal) containing honey, poison, etc. (Chiefly figurative) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > pouch or receptacle > for fluid baga1555 reservatory1670 reservoir1828 a1555 H. Latimer Serm. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1305/2 Yet there may remaine a bagge of rusty malice, twentie yere olde, in thy neighbours bosome. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 160 The hony bagges steale from the humble Bees. View more context for this quotation a1700 J. Dryden Medal in Wks. (1882–92) IX. 457 The swelling poison of the several sects..Shall burst its bag. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I ccxiv. 110 Hived in our bosoms like the bag o' the bee. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. iv. 37 While sting and poison-bag were left. 12. a. A baggy place, a fold. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > [noun] > wrinkled condition > wrinkle or crease rimpleeOE frouncec1374 runklea1400 wrinklea1420 ruge?a1425 crimple1440 wreathc1440 wrimple1499 rumple?a1513 scrumple?a1513 wimple1513 crease1578 bag1587 crinkle1596 pucker1598 press1601 crumple1607 creasing1665 ruck1774 cramp1828 fold1840 ruckle1853 bumfle1867 1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell ii. 163 Bagges, is in the wekes of the horse mouth. b. spec. in Leather Industry (see quot. 1909). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > imperfection frieze1885 bag1909 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. 105 Bag, in leather-manuf., fullness in the middle of a skin which prevents it from lying out flat and smooth. c. A fold of loose skin beneath the (human) eyes. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > fold of skin > [noun] > at eyes epicanthus1833 bag1867 pouch1891 Mongolian fold1908 1867 W. Allingham Diary 10 June in H. Gernsheim J. M. Cameron (1948) 25 I want to do a large photograph of Tennyson and he objects! Says I make bags under his eyes. 1894 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Real Charlotte I. x. 147 The dark bags of skin under Julia Duffy's eyes became slowly red. 1910 J. Buchan Prester John xix. 316 I caught a glimpse of my face in it,..lined with blue bags below the eyes. 1938 H. G. Wells Apropos of Dolores iv. 174 His large grey eyes had if anything got larger and the lower lids lower. He has bags under them. Categories » 13. plural. The stomach, entrails. (northern dialect and Scottish) 14. Coal Mining. A cavity filled with gas or water. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > other places in mine work1474 firework1606 stemple1653 stool1653 bink1675 engine pit1687 swamp1691 feeder1702 wall1728 bag1742 sill1747 stope1747 rose cistern1778 striking-house1824 plat1828 stemplar1828 screen chamber1829 offtake1835 footwall1837 triple pit1839 stamp1849 paddock1852 working floor1858 pit house1866 ground-sluice1869 screen tower1871 planilla1877 undercurrent1877 mill1878 blanket-sluice1881 stringing-deal1881 wagon-breast1881 brushing-bed1883 poppet-leg1890 slippet1898 stable1906 overcut1940 1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 138 An Account of a Bag of Water which was broke in his greatest Colliery. 1851 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade (ed. 2) Bag of Gas, a cavity found occasionally in fiery seams of coal, containing highly condensed gas. Categories » 15. Nautical ‘ Bag of the Head-rails, the lowest part..or that part which forms the sweep of the rail.’ Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867. 16. figurative. Clothes that hang loosely about the wearer; (colloquial) trousers. plural. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > loose-fitting bag1853 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose slops1481 shipman's hose1540 slop1560 shipman's breek1563 drawers1567 kelsouns1568 scaling1577 scavilones1577 scabilonian1600 calzoons1615 linings1631 swabber-slopsa1658 pantaloon1686 underslops1737 trousers1773 pyjamas1801 Cossacks1820 Turkish trousers1821 hakama1822 salwar1824 slacks1824 sherwal1844 overall1845 bag1853 sack-pants1856 bloomer1862 trouser skirt1883 petticoat trousers1885 mompe1908 step-in1922 bombachas1936 baggies1962 jams1966 palazzo1970 hose- 1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green vi. 51 Just jump into a pair of bags and Wellingtons. 1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) vii. 180 He..only appears stout because he puts himself into those bags (trousers). 1861 A. Trollope in Tales of all Countries 2nd Ser. 136 A pair of the loosest pantaloons—I might, perhaps, better describe them as bags. 1923 D. L. Sayers Whose Body? iv. 82 I'll run round and change at the club. Can't feed with Freddie Arbuthnot in these bags. 1927 D. L. Sayers Unnatural Death vii. 84 Just brush my bags down, will you, old man? 17. slang (originally U.S.). A disparaging term for a woman; (originally) a sexually promiscuous woman; (later) an unattractive or elderly woman; = baggage n. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun] old wifeeOE old womanOE trota1375 carlinec1375 cronec1386 vecke1390 monea1393 hagc1400 ribibec1405 aunt?a1425 crate14.. witchc1475 mauda1500 mackabroine1546 grandam?1550 grannam1565 old lady1575 beldam1580 lucky1629 granny1634 patriarchess1639 runta1652 harridan1699 grimalkin1798 mama1810 tante1815 wifie1823 maw1826 old dear1836 tante1845 Mother Bunch1847 douairière1869 dowager1870 veteraness1880 old trout1897 tab1909 bag1924 crow1925 ma1932 Skinny Liz1940 old bag1947 old boot1958 tannie1958 LOL1960 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > promiscuity > person > woman bat1607 tramp1922 bag1924 poule1924 blimp1926 punch board1955 slag1958 slagbag1966 hosebag1974 mama1980 slutbag1987 Essex girl1991 knob jockey2003 1924 P. Marks Plastic Age xviii. 202 I don't..chase around with filthy bags or flunk my courses. 1928 Amer. Speech Feb. 218 Say, Cress, who was that bag I saw you with yesterday? 1949 T. Rattigan Harlequinade (1953) 61 That's enough from you, you old bag! 1950 Penguin New Writing 40 45 ‘It's just like you, you dreary old bag,’ he would say to a blowsy old pro. 1961 M. Dickens Heart of London i. 77 I've never really known a pretty girl like you. At the training college they were all bags. IV. Phrases. 18. a. bag of bones: an emaciated living being. the whole bag of tricks: every expedient, everything (in allusion to the fable of ‘the Fox and the Cat’). Also bag of tricks, stock of resources; sometimes with play on other senses of ‘bag’ (old woman, etc.). in the bottom of the bag: remaining as a last resource or expedient. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > [phrase] > as a last resource in the bottom of the bag1659 the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having staffc1405 notomy1487 rakea1529 crag1542 scrag1542 sneakbill1546 starveling1546 slim1548 ghost1590 bald-rib1598 bare-bone1598 bow-case1599 atomy1600 sneaksbill1602 thin-gut1602 anatomya1616 sharg1623 skeleton1630 raw-bone1635 living skeleton1650 strammel1706 scarecrow1711 rickle of bones1729 shargar1754 squeeze-crab1785 rack of bones1804 thread-paper1824 bag of bones1838 dry-bones1845 skinnymalink1870 hairpin1879 slim jim1889 skinny1907 underweight1910 asthenic1925 ectomorph1940 skinny-malinky1957 matchstick1959 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > resources facultya1382 myance?a1513 moyen1547 facility1555 means1560 resource1611 foisona1616 wherewith1674 asset1677 stock-in-tradea1806 wherewithal1809 possibles1823 bag of tricks1841 potential1941 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource > a device, contrivance, or expedient > every expedient the whole bag of tricks1874 1659 Reynolds in T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 447 If this be done, which is in the bottom of the bag, and must be done, we shall..be able to buoy up our reputation. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. iv. 64 There, get down stairs, little bag o' bones. 1841 E. Wright tr. La Fontaine Fables (ed. 2) xii. xviii. 314 But fox, in arts of siege well versed, Ransacked his bag of tricks accursed. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iv. iii. 204 I am almost ashamed to punish A bag of skin and bones. 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 76 Bag of tricks, refers to the whole of a means towards a result. ‘That's the whole bag of tricks.’ 1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 29 May 2/6 She relied largely for her acting on the exploitation of what is nothing but a bag of tricks. 1898 A. Bennett Man From North xvi. 152 I've had three 3 a.m. midwifery cases this week—forceps, chloroform, and the whole bag of tricks. 1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) iii. ii. §3 301 Learn the whole bag of tricks in six months. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vii. [Aeolus] 135 She was a nice old bag of tricks. 1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey iii. viii. 185 A being who completely robbed the world of its importance, ‘snooped’, as it were, the whole ‘bag of tricks’. 1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners xiii. 280 Men were all alike. A woman didn't have to carry a very big bag of tricks to achieve her purpose. 1942 ‘P. Wentworth’ Danger Point xl. 233 Fingerprints... A nice bag of tricks for our modern scientific police. You put 'em in a hat and shake 'em up, and then you put in your hand and pick your murderer. 1957 V. J. Kehoe Technique Film & Television Make-up iii. 37 The make-up kit is the artist's tool box and bag of tricks. b. bag of mystery n. (usually in pl. bags of mystery) slang a sausage or saveloy. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] > types of sausage franchemyle1381 herbelade?c1390 haggisc1400 black puddinga1450 blood puddingc1450 bloodinga1500 liveringa1500 haggis pudding1545 white pudding1578 swine's pudding1579 hog's pudding1583 Bolognian sausage1596 bloodling1598 andouille1605 andouillet1611 cervelat1613 mortadella1613 polony1654 blacking1674 hacking1674 whiting1674 Oxford sausagec1700 saucisson1772 German sausage1773 saveloy1784 blood sausage1799 white hawse1819 liver sausage1820 black pot1825 chipolata1830 Bologna sausage1833 butifarra1836 mettwurst1836 Cambridge sausage1840 boudin1845 chorizo1846 German1847 liverwurst1852 salami1852 station-Jack1853 leberwurst1855 wurst1855 blutwurst1856 bag of mystery1864 Vienna sausage1865 summer sausage1874 wienerwurst1875 mealy pudding1880 whitepot1880 wiener1880 erbswurst1885 pepperoni1888 mystery bag1889 red-hot1890 weenie1891 hot dog1892 frankfurter1894 sav?1894 Coney Island1895 coney1902 garlic sausage1905 boloney1907 kishke1907 drisheen1910 bratwurst1911 banger1919 cocktail sausage1927 boerewors1930 soy sausage1933 thuringer1933 frank1936 fish sausage1937 knackwurst1939 foot-long1941 starver1941 soya sausage1943 soysage1943 soya link1944 brat1949 Vienna1952 kielbasa1953 Coney dog1954 tube steak1963 Weisswurst1963 Cumberland sausage1966 merguez1966 tripe sausage1966 schinkenwurst1967 boerie1981 'nduja1996 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 69. 1879 W. J. Barry Up & Down xvi. 163 A slice of bread was given with the ‘bag of mystery’, as some rowdies called the luscious saveloy. 1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 15/2 If they're going to keep running-in polony fencers for putting rotten gee-gee into the bags of mystery, I hope they won't leave fried-fish-pushers alone. 1921 H. Foston At Front xvi. 115 [Have you] any bags of mysteries, otherwise sausages? 1962 John o' London's 14 June 571/1 The bags of mystery or links of love are sausages. c. Colloquial phrase in the bag (i.e. game-bag; see sense 9): (a) Australian and New Zealand (see quot. 1945); (b) (to be put) in the bag, (to be) taken prisoner; (c) (originally U.S.) virtually assured or secured, as good as in one's possession. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > [verb (intransitive)] > be taken captive in the bag1900 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > certain prospect or possession > [adjective] strongeOE fasteOE sure1418 cocksure?a1534 in the bag1900 gold-plated1913 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [adverb] > set to lose in the bag1900 1900 J. Scott Tales Colonial Turf 33 The neddy was in the bag in the Cup; he was no trier. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. ix. 174 A horse set to lose a race is said to be in the bag. 1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast ii. 52 Unless I went out to the Front again and got put in the bag and sent to the same Boche prison.1956 D. M. Davin Sullen Bell ii. vii. 152 When you went in the bag the chaps probably said ‘Too bad about old Gus’.1922 San Francisco Call & Post 19 July 17 Yes, yes, yes, but listen to me—I get this from the jock himself—this is in the bag.1926 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 24 Sept. 1/2 After Tunney landed with that terrific right, the fight was in the bag.1929 Liverpool Daily Courier 4 Sept. 9/1 If half the members of a Talkie audience shudder every time a character on the screen says..‘It's in the bag’, the other half make a mental note of the expression for future use.1932 P. G. Wodehouse Hot Water i. 32 We're sitting pretty. The thing's in the bag.1943 B. J. Hurren Eastern Med. v. 51 Crete was ‘in the bag’ for Jerry if he wished to take it.1957 Economist 30 Nov. 765/1 The message..contains a frank warning that independence is not ‘in the bag’. 19. †to turn to bag and wallet: to become a beggar. to give (one) the bag to hold: to engage any one while taking the opportunity to slip away, to leave in the lurch. to give the bag to: to leave without warning (obsolete); also in modern dialect, to dismiss (a servant, etc.). Also to get the bag: to be dismissed; [Compare to give the sack n.¹] to let the cat out of the bag: to disclose the secret. to empty the bag (French vider le sac): to tell the whole story, finish the discussion. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > beg or be beggar [verb (intransitive)] thigc1300 begc1384 crave1393 to go a-begged1393 prowl1530 to go (or have been) a begging1535 maund?1536 to bear the wallet1546 cant1567 prog1579 to turn to bag and wallet1582 skelder1602 maunder1611 strike1618 emendicate1623 mendicate1623 to go a-gooding1646 mump1685 shool1736 cadge1819 to stand pad1841 stag1860 bum1870 schnorr1875 panhandle1894 pling1915 stem1924 nickel-and-dime1942 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away from [verb (transitive)] > go away from suddenly or hurriedly fleeOE to give the bag to1582 fling1588 vamoose1847 jump1875 skip1884 to leave (a person) flat1902 blow1912 scarper1937 society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > disclose or reveal secrets tell1537 blaba1616 to let the cat out of the bag1760 to blow the gab or gaff1834 to shoot off one's mouth1864 to give the show away1879 unload1904 to spill the beans1919 to shoot the works1922 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > deceive, delude [verb (transitive)] > leave in the lurch to leave in the lash1573 to leave in the lurch1596 lurcha1651 to give (one) the bag to hold1793 society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (intransitive)] > dismiss or discharge > be dismissed or discharged to get the bag1804 to get the sack1825 swap1862 to get the boot1888 to take a walk1888 to get the run1889 to get (or have) the swap1890 to get the (big) bird1924 to get one's jotters1944 1582 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1599) II. i. 161 The turning to bag and wallet of the infinite number of the poore people imploied in clothing. 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. F To giue your maisters the bagge. 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe iv. sig. G^v I feare our oares haue giuen vs the bag. 1647 Speedy Hue & Crie 1 He being sometime an Apprentice on London bridge..gave his Master the bag. 1760 London Mag. 29 224 We could have wished that the author..had not let the cat out of the bag. 1788 P. M. Freneau Misc. Wks. 414 He must give us the bag, Adhere to Old England, and sail with her flag. 1793 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 7 She will leave Spain the bag to hold. 1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 33 (note) ‘Gave him the bag.' An expression common with the lower classes, indicating that Miss Delia will not honour Mr. Damon with her company. 1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 92 Jonathan..trembled, sadly, all the way Lest he should get the bag, sir. 1823 W. Scott Peveril I. vi. 161 She gave me the bag to hold, and was smuggling in a corner with a rich old Puritan! 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 277 Sent away, with a flea in your ear; some girl has given you the bag. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. xiv. 300 This last epithet I choose to suppress, because it would let the cat out of the bag. 1870 etc. [see E.D.D.]. 1871 W. S. Gilbert Palace of Truth i. 13 While publishing the truth He's no idea that he is doing so; And..he let innumerable cats Out of unnumbered bags. 1913 ‘I. Hay’ Happy-go-lucky i. 4 ‘Your fag, isn't he?’ ‘I gave him the bag two terms ago... Tiny has him now.’ 20. bag and baggage n. originally a military phrase denoting all the property of an army collectively, and of the soldiers individually; hence the phrase, originally said to the credit of an army or general, to march out (with) bag and baggage (= French vie et bagues sauves), i.e. with all belongings saved, without surrender of anything; to make an honourable retreat. Now used depreciatively to express the absolute character of any one's departure: to clear out completely, ‘and a good riddance too!’ the bag and baggage policy: see last two quots. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > completely bag and baggage1525 society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [adverb] > with honourable retreat bag and baggage1525 1422 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1710) X. 206/2 (De salvo conductu) Cum armaturis..bonis..bogeis, baggagiis.] 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxiii. 59 We haue with vs all our bagges and baggages..that we haue wonne..by armes. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. I. cccxx. 497 So all the men of warre within departed with bag and baggage. 1544 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 47 The kynge gave them alle there lyffes and pardynd them to goo with bagge and bagges. 1580 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 922 To go safely with bag and baggage, never to return. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 158 Let vs make an honorable retreit, though not with bagge and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage. View more context for this quotation a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) ii. i. 617 To kick this ffellow..and send him downe stayres, with his Bag & Baggage. 1667 London Gaz. No. 163/2 Upon honorable conditions, marching off with Bag and Baggage, Drums beating, Colors flying. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 34 Bag and Baggage, said she, I'm glad you're going. 1876 W. E. Gladstone Bulgarian Horrors 61 The Turks..their Zaptiehs and their Mudirs..their Kaimakams and their Pashas, one and all, bag and baggage, shall, I hope, clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned. 1882 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David VI. Ps. cxix. 115 The king sent them packing bag and baggage. 1882 Daily News 28 May 5/6 Cites the famous Bulgarian pamphlet, precognising the bag-and-baggage policy as evidence that Mr. Gladstone will never be a party to restoring Turkish authority. Compounds C1. General relations: a. General attributive. bag-fox n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [noun] > game turned out of bag basket-hare1665 bag-fox1736 bag-wolf1862 bagman1875 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Vulpes > vulpes vulpes (fox) > hunted customer1590 bag-fox1736 ringer1832 bagman1875 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 217 Sometimes he is reserved alive, and hunted another Day, which is called a Bag-Fox. b. Objective. bag-bearer n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > one who has charge of or manages money hoarder944 treasurerc1290 purse-bearerc1300 coffererc1330 pursera1450 boucherc1450 bowgerc1450 purse-masterc1450 thesaurer1473 expenditor1499 bowser1534 bursarya1552 bursar1587 stock-keeper1589 bag-bearer1598 bourser1685 sumptuary1789 money manager1874 investment manager1879 tizzy-snatcher1914 1598 S. Rowlands Betraying of Christ 24 Apostle once, increasing Christ's eleuen, Bagbearer, to the charge of purse assign'd. bag-bearing n. bag-carrier n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [noun] > conveying or transporting > action of carrying > one who carries > of specific thing pannier-bearer1451 basket-bearer1530 bagman1531 burden-bearer1580 hamperman1631 budget-bearer1684 boat-bearer1706 card carrier1845 basket-carrier1849 bag-carrier1890 1890 J. Watson Confess. Poacher x. 137 I had arranged with a confederate to act as bag-carrier. 1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. iii. 197 A dwarf who carries a bag of ‘needments’. He is not a traitor, like the other bag-carrier Judas Iscariot. bag-maker n. bag-making n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [noun] > bag or collection of game quarryc1400 emprisec1450 bag1486 pot-hunting1843 bag-making1870 pickup1897 1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Aug. 12 Flat moors..on which bagmaking becomes sheer business, and you have a tame monotony of sport. bag-punching n. (cf. punch n.²) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > specific exercises breathing1605 breather1802 arm swing1859 setting-up drill1862 grasshopper march1884 lunge1889 push-up1897 sit-up1900 pull-up1901 deep-breathing1904 bag-punching1927 press-up1928 setting-up exercise1935 pullover1936 bear crawl1937 burpee1939 knee-bend1941 leg raise1944 dip1945 uddiyana1949 squat thrust1950 lateral1954 pull-down1956 aquacise1968 step-up1973 abdominal crunch1981 power walking1982 crunch1983 gut-buster1983 stomach crunch1986 1927 Daily Express 21 Sept. 1/2 Dempsey jogged some miles along the road yesterday, did bag-punching, etc. 1950 J. Dempsey Championship Fighting xxiv. 180 Bag-punching is another exercise that conditions and sharpens. bag-snatcher n. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > by snatching > specific silk snatcher1785 bag-snatcher1908 tear-away1938 1908 Westm. Gaz. 20 Aug. 8/2 Sentencing a bag-snatcher..to three months with hard labour... Prisoner snatched away the satchel of..a nurse. c. Similative and parasynthetic. bag-bedded adj. ΚΠ 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxix. 254 A night upon the ice, tented and bag-bedded. bag-cheeked adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [adjective] > types of cheek > having blob-cheeked1552 bright-cheekeda1560 plum-cheeked1598 chub-faced1602 white-cheekedc1602 chuffy1611 lantern-jawed1699 lockram-jawed1699 blubber-cheeked1711 chub-cheeked1715 lank-jawed1778 apple-faced1781 chubby-faced1826 apple-cheeked1827 lank-cheeked1838 bag-cheeked1839 poke-cheeked1843 maiden-cheeked1866 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism viii. 84 A plain..bag-cheeked..Lancashire man. bag-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave > like specific object camois1664 pouch-likea1676 scaphoidal1681 spoon-likea1686 umbilicated1693 umbilicate1698 saucer-shaped1753 boat-shaped1760 pouchy1786 cupped1796 urn-shaped1796 naviform1816 spoon-shaped1817 urn-like1826 vase-shaped1832 bag-shaped1836 basin-like1836 trough-like1839 urceiform1840 vase-like1840 saucered1847 bag-like1849 sac-like1849 pouch-shaped1854 basin-shaped1859 trough-shaped1871 bucketed1886 spooned1890 1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 1020/2 That skinny and bag-like part of its mouth which is under the jaw. bag-shaped adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave > like specific object camois1664 pouch-likea1676 scaphoidal1681 spoon-likea1686 umbilicated1693 umbilicate1698 saucer-shaped1753 boat-shaped1760 pouchy1786 cupped1796 urn-shaped1796 naviform1816 spoon-shaped1817 urn-like1826 vase-shaped1832 bag-shaped1836 basin-like1836 trough-like1839 urceiform1840 vase-like1840 saucered1847 bag-like1849 sac-like1849 pouch-shaped1854 basin-shaped1859 trough-shaped1871 bucketed1886 spooned1890 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 969/1 A dilated bag-shaped crop. C2. Special combinations: bag-filter n. a filter made of a cloth bag. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > filtering or percolating > [noun] > filter or percolator > cloth or bag strainer-cloth1444 hippocras bag?a1500 felt1527 filter1576 Hippocrates' bag1605 Hippocrates' sleeve1605 manica Hippocratis1651 hippocras sleeve1679 bag-filtera1877 a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 209/2 Bag-filter, (sugar refining) a device sometimes used in clearing saccharine solutions of feculencies and impurities mechanically suspended therein. 1910 Encycl. Brit. X. 346/2 A crude method [of filtration] consists of straining the liquid through cotton or other cloth..formed into long narrow bags (‘bag-filters’). bag-fox n. a fox brought alive in a bag to be turned out before the hounds. ΚΠ 1814 C. Mathews Let. 1 Nov. in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1838) II. 319 They turned out a bag-fox and we had a good run of three miles. † bag-granado n. Obsolete a grenade enclosed in a bag. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > grenade trombe1562 grenade1591 grenado1611 granata1637 hand grenade1637 bag-granado1638 shell1647 glass-grenade1664 globe1672 flask1769 petrol bomb1903 rifle grenade1909 hairbrush1916 Mills1916 pineapple bomb1916 stick grenade1917 fragmentation bomb1918 pineapple1918 potato-masher grenade1925 spitball1925 Molotov cocktail1940 sticky bomb1940 stick-bomb1941 red devila1944 stun grenade1977 flash-bang1982 1638–48 G. Daniel Eclog. v. 238 These Bag-Granadoes flie Still to Advantage Garrisons' Revolt. bag job n. U.S. slang an illegal search of a suspect's property by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, esp. for the purpose of copying or stealing incriminating documents, etc.; cf. black bag adj. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a). ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > investigation of crime > [noun] > types of search strip-search1947 body search1961 sweep1966 toss1970 bag job1971 1971 Time 11 Oct. 44/1 Bag job, in the U.S., an illegal search of a suspected spy's residence to obtain incriminating information. 1971 Time 25 Oct. 15/1 In the past, numerous spies..have been exposed by bag jobs. 1973 Telegraph (Brisbane) 25 Aug. 4/1 An [F.B.I.] agent..said he engaged in about a dozen illegal ‘black bag jobs’ during his career. 1980 Christian Sci. Monitor 19 Sept. 2/1 A US attorney told the jury to ‘say no to bag jobs’ during opening statements in the trial of two former FBI officials. bag-muff n. a muff containing a pouch which serves as a bag. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for hands > [noun] > muff > types of zibet-muff1685 oyster-barrel muff1703 bag-muff1884 granny muff1889 1884 Girl's Own P. 29 Nov. 138/2 The useful bag muff appears in..great varieties. bag-net n. a bag-shaped net for catching fish, insects, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > net > other nets stalker1389 pocketc1425 hoop-net1481 hose-net1554 gap-net1727 bag-net1777 hoop1882 skim-neta1884 the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > bag-net cod net1280 purse net1388 poke-net1442 poke1579 spirt-net1686 net bag1727 bag-net1777 fyke1832 1777 Travis in T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) IV. v. 14 Our fishermen use a bag-net fixed to an iron hoop. 1848 J. Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 vi. 321 A bag-net, which..secured the beetles. bag-rod n. a fishing-rod which can be taken to pieces and carried in a case. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > rod > [noun] > types of rod pole1577 telescope pole1675 fly-rod1684 dopper1688 whipper1688 bag-rod1787 telescope rod1820 salmon rod1841 greenheart1869 spinning-rod1870 loop-rod1885 roach pole1892 trunk-rod1893 sea-rod1902 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling 11 These bag-rods..go up in a small compass. bag-sleeve n. a sleeve tight at the wrist and baggy above. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > types of poke1402 foresleeve1538 long sleeve1538 lumbard1542 puller out1543 maunch1550 hand sleeve1585 French sleeve1592 poke sleeve1592 puff1601 trunk sleeve1603 stock-sleeve1611 hoop-sleeve1614 puff sleevec1632 short sleeve1639 hanging sleeve1659 engageants1690 jockey-sleeve1692 pudding-sleeve1704 Amadis1814 gigot1824 leg of mutton1824 bishop sleeve1829 mutton-leg sleeve1830 balloon sleeve1837 gigot-sleeve1837 bag-sleeve1844 pagoda sleeve1850 mameluke sleeve1853 angel sleeve1859 elbow-sleeve1875 sling-sleeve1888 sleevelet1889 pagoda1890 bell-sleeve1892 kimono sleeve1919–20 dolman1934 1844 R. Hart Antiq. Norfolk xxii. 69 A sort of bag-sleeve, tight at the wrist. bag-wolf n. (cf. bag-fox n.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [noun] > game turned out of bag basket-hare1665 bag-fox1736 bag-wolf1862 bagman1875 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis lupus (wolf) > defined by habitat or condition bag-wolf1862 snow-wolf1910 1862 M. Napier Mem. Life Visct. Dundee II. 151 No more bag-wolves to afford such sport. C3. bag and spoon: used attributively to designate a type of dredging apparatus (see quot. 1940). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > earth-moving and excavating equipment > [noun] > dredging equipment dredge1471 clam-shell1508 drag1611 steam dredge1801 dredging-machine1830 hedgehog1838 bag and spoon1840 hydrophore1842 dredger1863 gold dredge1881 gold dredger1897 suction dredge1901 bucket dredge1907 cutter-dredge1913 1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 30/1 Dredging with the common bag and spoon apparatus. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 70/2 Bag and spoon dredger, an implement consisting of a leather bag laced to a steel hoop;..used to dredge soft material. Draft additions 1993 bag lady n. originally U.S. a homeless woman, often elderly, who carries her possessions in shopping bags; = shopping-bag lady n. at shopping n.² Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > female > homeless toe-rag1875 toe-ragger1896 bag lady1972 crusty1990 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > female hoboette1918 bag lady1972 shopping-bag lady1975 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > carrying belongings swagman1851 swagger1855 swagsman1869 swaggie1892 bagman1896 drummer1898 battler1900 bindle-man1900 bindle-stiff1900 bluey-humper1903 bag lady1972 bag woman1977 1972 S. R. Curtin Nobody ever died of Old Age vi. 85 Letty the Bag Lady..would pack all her valuables in two large shopping bags and carry them with her. 1977 New Yorker 17 Oct. 40/2 I did a bag-lady number on one of the platforms here in the bus station last year, and I almost got arrested. 1984 M. Amis Money 105 They even had a couple of black-clad bagladies sitting silently on straight chairs by the door. Draft additions October 2009 spec. A piece of luggage; a case, holdall, etc., in which one carries one's belongings from place to place. Frequently in plural: baggage. ΚΠ 1607 A. Willet Harmonie vpon 1st Bk. Samuel xxi. 233 The instruments which were necessarie for their iourney, as their bagges and sachels. 1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1661) 36 Apostolicks..wandred up and down the Countreys, without staves, shooes, money, or bags. 1770 G. Baretti Journey London to Genoa I. x. 43 Every street-walker would give a pull to his bag, merely to rejoice themselves. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary xxvii Edie had arranged his various bags, and was bound for the renewal of his wandering life. 1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes xl They began to bend their steps towards Castle Boterel, whither they had sent their bags from Camelton. 1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxix. 445 A man knocked and came in with the luggage... Gudrun watched him put down the bags, in silence, then tramp heavily out. 1992 A. Walker Possessing Secret of Joy 142 I watched the two of them, chatting like old friends, go around to the boot to take out his bags. 2005 Olive Mar. (Rip-out Guide Suppl.) 2/4 Let the bellboy take your bags and twirl through the revolving door into an old-fashioned world. Draft additions October 2009 A small bag for carrying personal items, esp. a woman's handbag. ΚΠ 1825 ‘R. Revel’ Winter Evening Pastimes 158 The ladies' characters, must be put in a reticule or bag; and those for the gentleman into a hat. 1873 ‘S. Coolidge’ What Katy did at School iii. 48 Tucking the railway guide into the shawl-strap, and closing her bag with a snap. 1937 D. Aldis Time at her Heels x. 225 Mary detoured to pick up her bag from the table. 1977 Woman & Home Nov. 154/2 Grace started to rifle through the contents of her bag. 2001 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 182/2 Who ever heard of a public relations woman who didn't have at least two cell phones in her bag? Draft additions October 2009 Chiefly Sport (esp. Boxing). A weighted, suspended bag (such as a punchbag) used to practise punches or kicks in training and exercise. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > punchbag bag1858 punchbag1885 punchball1888 heavy bag1950 speedball1955 1858 Daily Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 7 Dec. 1/3 She stood looking at him as danced around the bag, busily punching its rotund sides. 1927 Daily Express 21 Sept. 1/2 Dempsey jogged some miles along the road yesterday, did bag-punching, etc. 1990 Trad. Karate Nov.–Dec. 8/1 Practise against a braced, suspended bag to get the feel of a correct impact since kicking the air alone will never help you to set up the technique properly. 1995 N. Blincoe Acid Casuals xxi. 159 The hall might have been large enough for fifty aerobickers if the ring was dismantled, the bags slung off their hooks. 2005 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 7 Mar. a6/2 He had a ‘fast bag’ to practice his boxing skills in his living room. Draft additions October 2009 A small packet containing a measured quantity of heroin or other illegal drug ready for sale; the quantity contained in such a packet. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a quantity of > in packet bindle1916 bag1957 1956 Illicit Narcotics Traffic: Hearings Comm. on Judiciary (84th Congress, 1st Sess.) viii. 4164 Bag, a morphine injection.] 1957 Post Tribune (Jefferson City, Missouri) 25 Nov. 24/2 The going price for heroin in Chicago is $3 a deck or bag. 1970 Time 20 July 15 In the argot of the drug world, it is ‘paraphernalia’: the necessary accouterments to merchandising heroin. The small glassine envelopes or ‘bags’, used to package heroin, are paraphernalia. 1990 R. Critchfield Among British iii. 208 He said the daily routines of a heroin user involved ‘getting up, hustling for money, buying heroin, smoking it, and then hustling for the next bag’. 2007 N.Y. Mag. 8 Oct. 40/2 Nights in ‘dope holes’ on 117th Street were spent clutching ‘wake-up bags’, packets of heroin needed ‘to get your ass out of bed so you could go into your daily flatfoot hustle’. Draft additions January 2010 In a balloon or non-rigid airship: the inflatable envelope for hot air or gas. ΚΠ 1783 Monthly Rev. Dec. 552 They [sc. the Montgolfier brothers] formed a bag, or balloon, of linen cloth, lined with paper, nearly spherical, and measuring about 35 feet in diameter. 1853 National Mag. Aug. 162/1 The air being rarefied by the application of burning paper to the aperture of the balloon, the bag ascended to a height of seventy feet. 1925 Pop. Mech. Aug. 211 Evening is usually chosen for the start of a balloon race because the gas is cool and contracted, allowing much more to be forced into the bag. 1987 Pilot Apr. 24/3 Nott's balloon Endeavour will have a pumpkin-shaped bag roughly 130 feet in diameter. 2009 R. Kaprov & S. Kaprov Master GED 2010 320/1 If the balloon begins to descend too soon, the crew reignites the burner, sending another blast of lift-producing heat into the bag. Draft additions January 2010 bag of fruit n. [rhyming slang.] slang (originally Australian) a man's formal suit; cf. whistle and flute n. at whistle n. 1d. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] habita1420 standc1450 suitc1475 sluch1582 standard1631 rig-out1824 outfit1840 suiting1863 shape1886 rig-up1896 bag of fruit1924 ensemble1927 whistle and flute1931 vine1932 drape1945 1924 Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Bag of fruit, a suit. 1949 L. F. Freed Probl. of European Prostitution in Johannesburg iii. 107 For the sake of atmosphere he may change into a new ‘bag of fruit’, ie a new suit. 1962 D. McLean World turned Upside Down 45 His little grey-haired mother pulled the lapels... ‘Strike me roan!’ cried Skinny. ‘What sort of a bag of fruit is that?’ 1973 B. Aylwin Load of Cockney Cobblers xvii. 67 Bag of fruit, suit. 2001 K. Perkins Dare to Dream xxi. 294 The Queen and Duke duly arrived, met by Ngaire in a stunning new outfit and Tom wearing his best bag of fruit. Draft additions January 2010 (not) to be one's bag slang (originally U.S.): (not) to match one's personal style, taste, or preference; (not) to form part of one's interest, preoccupation, or area of expertise. Usually in negative contexts. Cf. thing n.¹ 4d. ΚΠ 1966 N.Y. Times 20 Nov. d13/2 They were trying to categorize me..as a racial satirist, but that's not my bag. Let's say I deal in universal human foibles. 1972 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. 26 June 73/1 A face-lift might not be your bag... Your problem could call for special reconstruction. 1988 M. Marrin Eye of Beholder xv. 105 I didn't think art was your bag. 1993 Options Aug. 112/4 Then there's golf—both hotels have their own courses—tennis, sailing, and hunting, shooting and fishing, if that's your bag. 2008 Independent 26 Jan. (Mag.) 47/1 If digging is not your bag then think about covering the area with black landscape fabric to suppress weeds. Draft additions January 2010 bag of wind. a. Any object or bag-like container which is full of air; see wind-bag n. 1, 1c.In quot. 1593, the human body viewed as the receptacle of breath and life. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] > condition of being inflated > inflating > that which is inflated bag of wind1593 inflatable1954 1593 P. Stubbes Motiue to Good Wks. 9 Let vs cast away this filthie Philautia, this selfe loue, this ouerweening of our selues, and account of our selues as we are in deede, sackes of ashes, bagges of wind, bubbles of water, wormes meate, and no men. 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music (ed. 2) I. 500 Speaking of Nero, the Greek writer says, that he played on the Flute with a bladder, or leathern bag of wind, under his arm. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iv, in Tales of My Landlord 1st Ser. II. 72 I am wearied wi' doudling the bag o' wind a' day. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxxiii. 407 Nor have there been wanting learned exegetists who have opined that the whale mentioned in the book of Jonah merely meant a life-preserver—an inflated bag of wind—which the endangered prophet swam to, and so was saved from a watery doom. 1889 Punch 22 June 308/2 I now turn me to the consideration of your ‘Foote-balle’. I have examined the apparatus..—the great leathern bag of wind which is kicked. 1945 Timberman 46 82 First of all, a tire ‘is just a bag of wind’ as one rubber executive put it. 2004 B. Bunch & A. Hellemans Hist. Sci. & Technol. 34 A bag-of-wind sail is a loose sail held at its corners. b. In similative and figurative use, denoting something insubstantial, ephemeral, or worthless; a wholly vapid phenomenon or undertaking. Cf. wind n.¹ 15c. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless hawc1000 turdc1275 fille1297 dusta1300 lead1303 skitc1330 naught1340 vanityc1340 wrakea1350 rushc1350 dirt1357 fly's wing1377 goose-wing1377 fartc1390 chaff?a1400 nutshella1400 shalec1400 yardc1400 wrack1472 pelfrya1529 trasha1529 dreg1531 trish-trash1542 alchemy1547 beggary?1548 rubbish1548 pelfa1555 chip1556 stark naught1562 paltry?1566 rubbish1566 riff-raff1570 bran1574 baggage1579 nihil1579 trush-trash1582 stubblea1591 tartar1590 garbage1592 bag of winda1599 a cracked or slit groat1600 kitchen stuff1600 tilta1603 nothing?1608 bauble1609 countera1616 a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620 buttermilk1630 dross1632 paltrement1641 cattle1643 bagatelle1647 nothingness1652 brimborion1653 stuff1670 flap-dragon1700 mud1706 caput mortuuma1711 snuff1778 twaddle1786 powder-post1790 traffic1828 junk1836 duffer1852 shice1859 punk1869 hogwash1870 cagmag1875 shit1890 tosh1892 tripe1895 dreck1905 schlock1906 cannon fodder1917 shite1928 skunk1929 crut1937 chickenshit1938 crud1943 Mickey Mouse1958 gick1959 garbo1978 turd1978 pants1994 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > insubstantial triflec1290 vainc1330 winda1382 vapour1382 gossamer?a1400 visevase1481 good morrow1542 cobweb1579 superficial1579 puff1583 bladder1589 blathery1591 froth1594 bag of winda1599 moth1600 nominala1625 tumour1630 windlestraw1637 vacuity1648 balloon1656 blank1678 breath bubble1835 nominality1842 fluff1906 cotton candy1931 a1599 R. Rollock Lect. Hist. Passion (1616) xli. 408 A man without faith, is as an emptie vessell, and as a bagge of winde. 1690 T. Burnet Answer E. Warren x. 47 If you take the first method, these superficial Mountains would be nothing but so many baggs of Wind. 1721 Coll. Lett. to Author London Jrnl. 18 He that gets a Hundred Thousand Pounds by a Bubble, that is, by selling a Bag of Wind to his credulous Countrymen, is a greater Idol in every Coffee-House in Town. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets v. 25 Is Society become wholly a bag of wind, then, ballasted by guineas? 1901 Meehan's Monthly Jan. 12/1 All tested were as hollow as a bag of wind! 2002 Independent 27 May 14/1 The bag of wind which was Labour's transport policy. c. A person who speaks or writes at length but says little of substance or value; a pompously verbose speaker. Also: a loud-mouthed but ineffectual person. colloquial and derogatory. Cf. wind-bag n. 2.Sometimes, esp. in early use, as part of an extended metaphor. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boaster yelper1340 avaunterc1374 braggerc1390 fare-makerc1440 seggerc1440 shakerc1440 vaunter1484 roosera1500 praterc1500 cracker1509 vouster?a1513 boaster1574 Thrasoa1576 braggarta1577 braver1589 glorioser1589 bragout1592 rodomont1592 braggadocio1594 gloriosoc1599 puckfist1600 burgullian1601 puff1601 forthputtera1610 rodomontado1609 ostentator1611 fanfaron1622 potgun1623 thrasonist1626 cracka1640 vapourer1653 braggadocian1654 rodomontadist1655 charlatan1670 brag1671 rodomontade1683 gasconader1709 rodomontader1730 Gascon1757 spread eagle1809 bag of wind1816 penny trumpeter1828 spraga1838 gasser1855 blow-hard1857 blower1863 crower1864 gabber1869 flannel-mouth1882 punk-fist1890 skiter1898 Tartarin1903 blow1904 skite1906 poofter1916 trombenik1922 shooter of lines1941 fat-mouth1942 wide-mouth1959 Wheneye1982 trash talker1986 braggarist- the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] > one who indulges in praterc1500 bumbard?a1513 babbler?1555 jabberer1678 bag of wind1816 haverel1825 haverer1825 windbag1827 clatfarta1930 natterer1959 1816 Maryland Gaz. 18 Jan. 1/2 ‘Vox et praeterea nihil.’ Mr. Stanley—Let me translate, sir—The gentleman is nothing but a bag of wind! 1851 Ladies' Repository Nov. 435/2 Throughout his ponderous volumes..he looks, for all the world, as he is, like a mere bag of wind—a scarecrow, to admonish others of the folly of similar depredations. 1899 M. Brown Wit & Humor Bench & Bar 375 May the divil fly away with you, you mealy-mouthed bag of wind! 1948 ‘G. Orwell’ Let. 22 Oct. in Coll. Ess., Journalism, & Lett. IV. (2000) 448 I think Sartre is a bag of wind and I am going to give him a good boot. 1961 Life 3 Feb. 66/2 Our 1st Lieut...is a bag of wind, detested by every man in the Co. 2002 C. F. Brown Under Green Tree ii. 28 That old bag of wind. She just talks, and always talking about me. Draft additions September 2013 bag-in-a-box: a plastic or foil pouch, usually containing wine, with a spigot through which the contents can be poured without admitting air into the bag, packaged in a sturdy cardboard box; frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > container or package for goods > [noun] > specific woolpack1297 bag-in-a-box1943 pre-package1946 pre-pack1951 Tetra Pak1953 blister package1954 vacuum packaging1954 blister pack1964 ballotin1974 1943 Pop. Mech. Feb. 182/2 Cellophane bag-in-a-box containers carry heavy liquids for cooking, such as egg yolks and fluid chocolate. 1981 Canberra Times 23 July 18/5 Britain has discovered the wine cask. With the curious name of ‘bag-in-a-box’, the wine container, which for many years was the exclusive domain of Australians, has been launched in London with a big bang. 1989 Grocer 21 Jan. 209/3 Clifford's Dairy will be launching an extended life milkshake base..packaged in a bag-in-box container. 2006 Decanter June (Argentina 2006 Suppl.) 12/1 Historically at least, San Juan was one of the main sources of grape concentrate and so-called Tetrabrick wines (think bag-in-a-box), with little or nothing to recommend it to the quality-minded consumer. Draft additions September 2013 bag boy n. a (typically young) male assistant who carries a bag or bags for someone; (now esp.) an assistant in a supermarket or other shop who helps customers to pack and carry their purchases. ΚΠ 1786 Morning Post 10 Apr. Jones's bag-boy was detected bending the spurs [of a fighting cock]. 1872 All Year Round 17 Aug. 320/1 All the legal rout, serjeants in silk and stuff, clerks, bag-boys, attorneys, scriveners, assessors. 1877 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 4 Aug. 7/2 The maid-of-all-work, and..the page and bag-boy. 1915 P. Davis Street-land 165 ‘Bag-boys’ loiter about railway stations..at all hours, always ready and anxious to carry a traveling bag or suitcase for a tip. 1941 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 24 Sept. 1/1 The bagboy, making no further mistake, proffered the putter. 1964 J. D. MacDonald Deep Blue Goodby xi. 101 There is competition for bag-boy jobs in the supermarkets. 2005 N.Y. Times Mag. 18 Sept. 67/1 (advt.) Carry your own groceries to the car instead of letting the bag boy do it. Draft additions September 2013 bag limit n. Shooting, Angling, etc. a limit imposed on the number of birds, fish, or other game which may be shot or caught in a given period by an individual or group. ΚΠ 1898 Horse & Hound 7 May 294/1 Average bag limit, 700 pheasants, 1000 partridges, 300 hares, and a large number of rabbits. 1907 Daily Chron. 17 May 9/4 The mere cost of a game license..is not likely to deter wealthy Americans, but there is always the bag-limit to fall back upon. 1959 J. W. Krutch Human Nature & Human Condition iv. 64 If a bag limit based on an accurate estimation of population density was set, that density would soon be reduced to an optimum. 2004 T. C. Boyle Inner Circle i. vi. 111 A hunter returning from a successful expedition with his bag limit of the usual birds. Draft additions September 2013 bag lunch n. chiefly U.S. a lunch, typically of sandwiches and other light food, carried to work, school, etc., in a paper bag; = brown-bag lunch at brown adj. Additions Cf. packed lunch at packed adj.¹ 1b. ΚΠ 1895 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye 12 July 7/3 The invaders brought with them a very fine bag lunch. 1963 R. M. Cyert & J. G. March Behavioral Theory of Firm p. v Our research..began with a casual conversation over a pair of bag lunches. 1996 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Apr. k6 Paul's Place, a storefront where the homeless can get a bag lunch. 2002 Field & Stream Jan. 61/1 When gun writers are finally given a Greyhound ticket and a bag lunch, they are mere shells of human beings. Draft additions September 2013 bag person n. originally and chiefly U.S. a homeless person, esp. one who carries his or her possessions in disposable shopping bags. ΚΠ 1981 N.Y. Times 28 June 34/2 A bag person couple were seen fornicating on the church steps one afternoon. 1994 R. Sukenick Doggy Bag 67 An ambiguously-aged bag person, dressed in ragged layers and rolling a shopping cart whose contents are bundled in sacking and plastic. 2005 S. Benítez Bag Lady 167 The confidences we..shared over the phone allowed me to see that each bag person has a unique story. Draft additions September 2013 bag people n. originally and chiefly U.S. homeless people, esp. those who carry their possessions in disposable shopping bags. ΚΠ 1979 T. Williams Vieux Carré i. i. 7 They's lots of folks my age, black an' white, that's called bag people. They just wander round with paper bags that hold ev'rything they possess or they can collect. 1981 N.Y. Times 3 Mar. a19/4 The family had been found living in Grand Central Station, along with scores of other unfortunates—‘bag people’,..individuals discharged from state hospitals, and random lost souls. 2005 Church Times 11 Mar. 11/5 We shall..turn into two mad old bag people.., wheezingly overcoming our enormous bulk to pick up litter and push back supermarket trolleys wherever we go. Draft additions September 2013 bag stuffer n. originally and chiefly U.S. an advertising leaflet or similar piece of promotional material handed out to shoppers or placed in shopping bags alongside goods purchased; cf. stuffer n. 3. ΚΠ 1960 Ada (Okla.) Evening News 11 Sept. 9/3 Bombarding the public with newspaper ads, radio and TV messages, posters, bag stuffers and mailers. 1982 N.Y. Times 23 Apr. b1 As the vote approaches... supermarkets have opposed it through ‘bagstuffer’ leaflets in their stores, and notices in their advertising supplements. 2012 P. C. Sansevieri 52 Ways to sell More Books! xv. 51 You might be able to drop the bookmarks (or bag stuffers) off at the nearby stores to see if they'll help promote the event. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2019). bagv.¹ Brit. /baɡ/, U.S. /bæɡ/ Etymology: < bag n. 1. intransitive. a. To swell out as a bag, to bulge; Nautical to drop away from the direct course, to sag. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > be or become protuberant [verb (intransitive)] struta1300 bouge1398 embossc1430 bagc1440 bossc1449 bunch1495 bump1566 boin1567 protuberate1578 pagglea1592 bulch1611 extuberate1623 belly1627 heave1629 bulge1679 swell1679 bud1684 pod1806 bilge1849–52 sag1853 knucklec1862 poocha1903 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > drop away from direct course to fall off1569 yaw1584 sag1633 bag1836 to break off1867 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 21 Baggyn, or bocyn owte, Tumeo. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. x. 211 A corner of Ephraim, which baggeth into the south. 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 142 Sometimes one side of the ear is good corn, and the other bags..and..will be smutty. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. (J.) The skin..bagged, and had a porringer full of matter in it. 1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer II. ix. 115 He was bagging to leeward, like a..barge laden with a haystack. b. To hang loosely like clothes that are too big. Said esp. of trousers which become out of shape at the knees. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [verb (intransitive)] > hang or sit in specific way poughc1325 frouncec1400 poke?a1425 to hang by geometry1584 sag1592 bag1824 bustle1824 cascade1861 flare1899 pouch1901 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [verb (intransitive)] > of trousers: become out of shape bag1893 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 265 Coat, which bagged loosely about him. 1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 205 Dingy embroidered trappings..seen bagging upon the wooden effigies. 1893 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 293/1 A trouser-leg is more obstinate in its ugliness. If tight it bags at the knees. 1913 ‘A. R. Hope’ Half & Half Trag. 32 The Captain of the school has a pair of new breeches..; but they bag at the knees. †2. intransitive. To be pregnant. (Also to be bagged.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > be pregnant [verb (intransitive)] goOE to go with childc1300 baga1400 gravidate1623 breed1629 (to be) in an interesting condition1748 gestate1883 expect1906 infanticipate1934 a1400 Sir Perc. 717 The mere was bagged with fole. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 442/2 I bagge, as a doe dothe that is with faune..Se howe yonder doe is bagged. 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxx. 132 Well Venus shortlie bagged, and ere long was Cupide bread. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xxxiv. 862 The female being bagd. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 728 The females, or does..will conceive and be bagged. 3. transitive. To cause to swell or bulge; to cram full. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > make protuberant [verb (transitive)] bossc1380 embossc1475 bag1582 belly1609 womb?1623 bumpa1680 protuberate1778 bilge1808 hump1840 bulge1865 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 28 Thee mischeuus engyn, Ful bagd with weapons. 1620 Eccl. Proc. Durh., Newcastle-on-T. The chest..was bagd up with monye. 1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.7) i. 408 How doth an unwelcome dropsie..bagge up the eyes. 1758 J. Smeaton in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 204 Almost all the lights [i.e. windows] in the church, tho' not broke were bagged outward. 4. transitive. To put into a bag or bags. to bag up: to put up in a bag; to shut or store up generally. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into or as into other specific receptacles sackc1405 pokea1425 pipe1465 barrel1466 cask1562 bag1570 vessel1577 basket1582 crock1594 cade1599 maund1604 impoke1611 incask1611 inflask1611 insatchel1611 desk1615 pot1626 cooper1746 kit1769 vat1784 pannier1804 vial1805 flask1855 tub1889 ampoule1946 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > in or as in other specific receptacle or enclosure casea1525 to case up1566 chamber1568 bag1570 embower1580 cistern1587 bower1599 casket1603 entemple1603 immould1610 incavern1611 incave1615 chest1616 enchest1632 intrunk1633 labyrinth1637 caverna1640 cabinetc1642 ark1644 to box in1745 lantern1789 cauldron1791 cave1816 pocket1833 castle1871 the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > in a receptacle > specific pokea1400 barrel1466 bag1570 bottle1594 chest1616 vat1784 tank1900 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 22^v Good husbandry baggeth vp golde in his chest. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. xiv. f. 113^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I They [sc.saffron chives] are dried and pressed into cakes, & then bagged up. 1711 Act in London Gaz. No. 4874/1 The precise Day..on which..they shall Bag..their Hops. 1798 W. Hutton Life 12 I undressed, bagged up my things in decent order, and prepared for rest. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 1 Stopping..to bag a specimen. 5. To put game killed into a bag; also, to kill game (without reference to the bag). Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > kill animal [verb (transitive)] slayc1000 slaughter1535 kill1560 to bring down1768 bag1814 mop1859 murder1863 beef1869 cull1889 carcass1906 harvest1947 1814 Monthly Mag. 37 238 To allow the royal sportsman to bag more birds than himself. 1844 P. Hawker Instr. Young Sportsmen (ed. 9) 148 To bag a dozen head of game without missing. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany ix. 150 My friend thus bagged two wolves. 1890 F. D. Lugard Diary (1959) I. 135 In the evening I again hit several animals by the unanimous verdict of my men, but did not bag. 6. colloquial. a. To seize, catch, take possession of, steal. To add to one's ‘bag’ (bag n. 9). figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)] gripea900 afangOE to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)OE repeOE atfonga1000 keepc1000 fang1016 kip1297 seize1338 to seize on or upon1399 to grip toc1400 rapc1415 to rap and rendc1415 comprise1423 forsetc1430 grip1488 to put (one's) hand(s) on (also in, to, unto, upon)1495 compass1509 to catch hold1520 hap1528 to lay hold (up)on, of1535 seisin?c1550 cly1567 scratch1582 attach1590 asseizea1593 grasp1642 to grasp at1677 collar1728 smuss1736 get1763 pin1768 grabble1796 bag1818 puckerow1843 nobble1877 jump1882 snaffle1902 snag1962 pull1967 1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris vi Who can help to bag a few, When Sidmouth wants a death or two. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. iv. 304 The idea of being led up to the Doctor..for bagging fowls. 1861 F. M. Müller in Sat. Rev. 23 Feb. 197/1 A stray story may thus be bagged in the West-end of London. 1879 Bell's Life in London 28 June 4/2 Whom Mr. Hornby very smartly ‘bagged’ at mid-on. 1936 J. Dos Passos Big Money 72 He was almost bagged by a taxicab crossing the street. 1940 I. Halstead Wings of Victory i. ii. 59 Pilot Officer Elliott..has now bagged two. 1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 11 To bag, bagged, to hit by aerial gunfire; shot down. b. To claim; reserve. Used esp. by children (see quot. 1914 and bags I phr.). colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (transitive)] > claim > claim for oneself ownOE vendicate1531 brand1596 vindicate1725 bag1914 1914 Concise Oxf. Dict. Add. 1045/2 Bag, (also, in school slang) claim on the ground of being the first to claim (I b., but usu. bags I or bags, first innings!). 1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 56 I'm going to bag the best chair. 1948 R. A. Knox Mass in Slow Motion vii. 68 The other girl bagging the hot-water pipes first. 1968 Listener 29 Feb. 269 I bags be Anthony Wedgwood Benn. 7. To dismiss, discharge (a person). Cf. sack v.¹ 5a. Cf. bag n. 19. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss or discharge to put awaya1387 discharge1428 dismiss1477 to put out of wages1542 discard1589 to turn away1602 to put off1608 disemploy1619 to pay off1648 to pay off1651 to turn out1667 to turn off1676 quietus1688 strip1756 trundle1794 unshop1839 shopc1840 to lay off1841 sack1841 drop1845 to give (a person) the shoot1846 bag1848 swap1862 fire1879 to knock off1881 bounce1884 to give (a person) the pushc1886 to give (a person) the boot or the order of the boot1888 bump1899 spear1911 to strike (a medical practitioner, etc.) off the register1911 terminate1920 tramp1941 shitcan1961 pink slip1966 dehire1970 resize1975 to give a person his jotters1990 1848 Chaplain's Rep., Preston House of Correction 61 The master told him if he did not mind his work he would ‘bag’ him. 1895 W. Westall Sons of Belial II. xxii. 83 ‘Not have me at th' shop!..You surely wouldn't bag me?.. Bagged, beggared, and disinherited!’ he moaned. 1895 W. Westall Sons of Belial II. xxii. 85 I'll work for nowt. Only don't bag me just like a common hand. 8. to bag school, to play truant. Also to bag it. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [verb (intransitive)] > to play truant to play truant1560 mitch1580 mooch1622 to trig it1796 plunk1808 minch1836 wag1847 to play hookey1848 to hop the wag1861 to play (the) wag1861 to hook Jack1877 to bag school1934 to go on the hop1959 1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) vii. 203 She did not report him on Sunday afternoons when he ‘bagged it’ to go to a ball game. 1948 Philadelphia Bulletin 15 Jan. 14 Threatening him with castor oil, when he seemed set to bag school, never did any good. Draft additions January 2010 transitive. To capture, arrest, or imprison (a criminal, enemy soldier, etc.). colloquial.In quot. 1824, used punningly on sense 5. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)] beclosec1000 setc1100 steekc1175 prison?c1225 adightc1275 imprison1297 laya1325 keepc1330 presentc1380 locka1400 throwc1422 commise1480 clapc1530 shop1548 to lay up1565 incarcerate1575 embar1590 immure1598 hole1608 trunk1608 to keep (a person) darka1616 carceir1630 enjaila1631 pocket1631 bridewell1733 bastille1745 cage1805 quod1819 bag1824 carcerate1839 to send down1840 jug1841 slough1848 to send up1852 to put away1859 warehouse1881 roundhouse1889 smug1896 to bang up1950 society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] at-holda1230 attacha1325 resta1325 takec1330 arrest1393 restay?a1400 tachec1400 seisinc1425 to take upa1438 stowc1450 seize1471 to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515 deprehend1532 apprehend1548 nipa1566 upsnatcha1566 finger1572 to make stay of1572 embarge1585 cap1590 reprehend1598 prehenda1605 embar1647 nap1665 nab1686 bone1699 roast1699 do1784 touch1785 pinch1789 to pull up1799 grab1800 nick1806 pull1811 hobble1819 nail1823 nipper1823 bag1824 lag1847 tap1859 snaffle1860 to put the collar on1865 copper1872 to take in1878 lumber1882 to pick up1887 to pull in1893 lift1923 drag1924 to knock off1926 to put the sleeve on1930 bust1940 pop1960 vamp1970 1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI lxii. 95 The constable..Had bagged this poacher upon Nature's manor. 1864 H. R. Berkeley Four Years in Confederate Artillery (1961) 73 About 1 p.m. our boys brought out an entire Yankee regiment they had bagged. 1919 T. Kelly What Outfit? 180 ‘Those guys sure bagged some Boches,’ and the guard picked up a faster step with his prisoners. 1965 C. Brown Manchild in Promised Land i. 16 They were both bagged..for smoking pot in front of the police station. 2001 Time 22 Oct. 46/2 Attorney General Robert Kennedy used the ‘spitting on the sidewalk’ strategy—prosecuting small-time offenses to bag big-time suspects. Draft additions January 2010 colloquial (originally U.S.). To cancel, discontinue, or abandon (something). Frequently in to bag it. Cf. bin v. Additions, ditch v.¹ 6c. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > cancel a projected action to call off1620 scrub1828 yank1940 bag1962 1962 J. E. Quirk No Red Ribbons 280 He's going to close the shop and tell the union to bag it. 1976 N.Y. Post 23 Dec. 28 If I were you, I'd ask my husband to bag the deal. And on the double. 1986 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 12 Aug. 10/6 Smokers are encouraged to loosen the bonds that attach them to cigarettes. Then if they successfully ‘bag the fag’ for two months, the prizes are good health and the chance to win a..holiday. 1995 On Edge Aug. 69/1 Ben Moon has bagged his Kilnsey project (for the time being), it's simply too hard, particularly as Ben is suffering with ‘bad fingers’. 2004 Wall St. Jrnl. (Central ed.) 12 Jan. a1/3 Joe White unveils five of the latest concept cars from last week's Detroit auto show, and you can vote to ‘bag it’ or ‘build it’. Draft additions October 2009 transitive. Medicine (chiefly North American). To ventilate (a patient) using a collapsible bag containing air or oxygen. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > apply type of treatment [verb (transitive)] > artificially ventilate ventilate1919 bag1964 1964 Jrnl. Albert Einstein Med. Center 12 258 Should it be difficult to effect adequate ventilation, other methods are employed, one of which is the use of a breathing bag, a small plastic oropharyngeal airway and face mask—or in anesthesia jargon, 'bagging the patient'. 1969 P. Sunshine in J. Dancis Idiopathic Respiratory Distress Syndrome (National Inst. Child & Human Devel.) iii. 100 When a baby is doing poorly, we may ‘bag’ him for five minutes. 1988 Yankee Dec. 106/1 You might have to massage his ribs, and if that doesn't work, we ‘bag’ them—give them oxygen. 1995 Hosp. News Jan. 6/1 ‘Bag him,’ cries out the first attendant. The patient is put on oxygen. Draft additions June 2006 transitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly Australian). To criticize or disparage. ΚΠ 1969 [implied in: Daily Tel. (Sydney) 20 Mar. 6/6 In the last couple of decades the poor old Poms have taken such a bagging from the rest of the world. (at bagging n.¹ Additions)]. 1975 Australian (Sydney ed.) 11 Nov. 10/2 Sigley is also ‘bagged by the blokes’. He says the world is full of big-noters who reckon if a little fat guy can stand up there and talk for an hour then they can too. 1989 Time Off (Brisbane) 2 Mar. 16/1 The left side of my brain is yelling ‘It's crap, it's crap, bag it!’, which would be easy enough to do if the right side didn't persist in reminding me that at times this damn film had me rolling in my seat with laughter. 1994 RIP June 6/1 The wusses currently bagging Dave Mustaine of Megadeth. 2000 N. Earls Perfect Skin (2001) 38 She bags the shit out of you in emails. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2019). bagv.² Forms: Also 1600s bagge, 1800s badge. Etymology: Origin not ascertained: compare batch n.¹ To cut corn, pease, or beans, with a bagging or badging hook: see quot. 1865. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > reap or mow a crop > bag baga1697 a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts. (1847) i. ix. 51 They cannot mowe it with a sythe, but they cutt it with such a hooke as they bagge pease with. 1820 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) XIV. 234 They [beans] are bagged like wheat. 1865 Gard. & Farmer's Vade M. ii. 123 The corn is either mown, or reaped, or bagged. In ‘bagging,’ as it is called, a heavy hook is used: a wisp of straw is cut first and doubled up, or a stick is used instead, held in the left hand, and with the right the heavy hook is driven against the corn close to the ground, and so, by successive strokes, the corn is cut, perhaps a foot deep, up against the standing crop; the wisp or stick in the left hand serving to guide it to a standing place. 1877 E. Warburton Poems 23 Sweet to see cornfields badged, and wheatsheaf bound. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.?c1225v.¹a1400v.²a1697
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