English Explanatory Dictionary

bag

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
  2. A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
  3. One's preference.
  4. An ugly woman.
  5. The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
  6. First, second, or third base.
  7. A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
  8. A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
  9. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
  10. An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
  11. The human female breast.
  12. A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
verb
  1. To put into a bag.
  2. To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
  3. To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
  4. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
  5. To steal.
  6. To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
  7. To arrest.
  8. To furnish or load with a bag.
  9. To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
  10. To fit with a bag to collect urine.
  11. To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
  12. To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.

Pronunciation

/ˈbæɡ/ [ˈbæɡ] en-us-bag.ogg EN-AU ck1 bag.ogg /ˈbɛɡ/ [ˈbɛɡ] /ˈbeɪ̯ɡ/ [ˈbeɪ̯ɡ] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Justinrleung-bag.wav

Word forms

bag bags bagging bagged

Etymology

Etymology tree Old Norse baggibor.? Old French baguebor.? Middle English bagge English bag Inherited from Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin.

Synonyms

sack tote poke cup of tea thing affinity bag bent cup of coffee cup of joe dish fancy liking partiality penchant predilection predisposition preference proclivity propension propensity shine taste dog hag multiset milkbag funbag assets babylons balloons baps badonkers bangers bazongas bazookas bazoombas bazooms bewbs bobas booba boobage boobs boobers boobies boosies bosom breasts breasticles breasties bristols bubby bubs bust calcium cannons cans cantaloupes casabas charlies chebs

Derived words

airbag air bag airline bag Ali Baba bag all that and a bag of chips all that and a bag of potato chips arrow bag assbag baby bag bag and baggage bag and band bagboy bag boy bag-carrier bag for life bagful baggable baggage bag gas bagger baggie baggy baghead bagholder baghouse bag-in-box bagism bag job bag knot bag lady bagless baglike bagload bag lunch bagmaker bagmaking bag man bagman bagmoth bag nasty bag of antlers bag of bones bag of dicks bag of fruit bag of holding bag of mystery bag of nerves bag of rations bag of shells bag of tricks bag of waters bag of weasels bag of wind bag of words bag out bag people bag phone bagpipes bagplot bag plum

Translations

Afrikaans: sak Akkadian: luppum Albanian: thes Albanian: çantë Albanian: qese Southern Altai: калта Amharic: ቦርሳ Amharic: ጁኒያ Amharic: ጆንያ Arabic: حَقِيبَة Arabic: جَيْب Arabic: كِيس Arabic: كيس Arabic: جنطة Arabic: شَنْطَة Arabic: خنشة f ميكا plastic bag Arabic: شنطة Turoyo: ܫ̰ܰܢܛܰܐ Armenian: պայուսակ Armenian: տոպրակ Armenian: պարկ Assamese: মোনা Assamese: টোপোলা Assamese: জোলোঙা Asturian: talega Asturian: bolsa Asturian: faltriquera Asturian: carcabás Asturian: morral Asturian: zurrón Asturian: follica Azerbaijani: çanta Azerbaijani: torba Azerbaijani: paket Bashkir: тоҡ Bashkir: тоҡсай Basque: poltsa Belarusian: су́мка Belarusian: мяшо́к Belarusian: то́рба Bengali: ব্যাগ Bengali: থলে Bulgarian: торба́ Bulgarian: ча́нта Bulgarian: чува́л Bulgarian: плик Bulgarian: кеси́я Burmese: အိတ် Catalan: bossa Cherokee: ᏕᎦᎵᏗ Chichewa: thumba Tedim Chin: ip Chinese Cantonese: 袋 Chinese Cantonese: 包 Chinese: бозы Chinese: 袋仔 Chinese: 橐仔 Chinese Mandarin: 包 Chinese Mandarin: 袋 Wu Chinese: 包 West Circassian: шэнтэ Cornish: sagh Czech: taška Czech: pytel Danish: bærepose Danish: sæk Danish: taske Dutch: zak Dutch: tas Dzongkha: ཕད་ཅུང Egyptian: a:r:f-V33 Egyptian: q:r-f:t-S28 Esperanto: sako Estonian: kott Fijian: kato Fijian: beki Fijian: taga Finnish: kassi Finnish: laukku Finnish: pussi Finnish: säkki French: sac French: poche French: cornet West-Frisian: pûde Friulian: sac Galician: motela Galician: boria Galician: argán Galician: buzaca Galician: taleiga Galician: barxoleta Galician: bisallo Galician: bulsa Galician: faldriqueira Galician: falchoca
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