bag

From Middle English bagge, borrowed from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰak- (compare Welsh baich (“load, bundle”), Ancient Greek βάσταγμα (bástagma, “load”)).

• enPR: băg, IPA^(key): /bæɡ/
• (US, some dialects) IPA^(key): /bɛɡ/
• (US, Upper Midwest) IPA^(key): /beɪɡ/,

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• Rhymes: -æɡ

bag (plural bags)

1. A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
2. (informal) A handbag
3. A suitcase.
4. A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
5. (slang) One’s preference.

   Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.

6. (derogatory) An ugly woman.
7. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

   The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.

8. (baseball) First, second, or third base.

   He headed back to the bag.

9. (preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
10. (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

    If one has a bag of three apples and the letter 'a' is taken to denote 'apple', then such bag could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Note that in an ordinary context, when talking about a bag of apples, one does not care about identifying the individual apples, although one might be interested in distinguishing apples by species, for example, letting 'r' denote 'red apple' and 'g' denote 'green apple', then a bag of three red apples and two green apples could be denoted as {r,r,r,g,g}.

11. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

    the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents

    the bag of a cow

12. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
13. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
14. (slang, vulgar) A scrotum.
15. (Britain) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
16. (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
    • 2013, Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom (page 14)

      With gravel stuck to my cheek, I pulled myself back in the car, looked in the rearview mirror, and saw, looking back at me, a young man with a pale face and a purple bag under each eye. I looked pitiful […]

• (flexible container): poke (obsolete), sack, tote
• (handbag): handbag, purse (US)
• (preference): cup of tea, thing, see also Thesaurus:predilection
• (ugly woman): dog, hag
• (in mathematics): multiset

• (flexible container): bindle

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

1. To put into a bag.
2. (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.

   We bagged three deer yesterday.

3. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
4. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
   • Dryden

     a bee bagged with his honeyed venom

5. (slang, African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
6. (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
7. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
8. (medicine) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
9. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell or hang down like a full bag.

   The skin bags from containing morbid matter.

   The brisk wind bagged the sails.

10. To hang like an empty bag.
    • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 3,

      […] he was dressed in a badly fitting white drill suit, with trousers bagging concertina-like over clumsy black boots.

    • 2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island, London: Review, Chapter Eleven, p. 125,

      And this uniform did not even fit me so well. But what is a little bagging on the waist and tightness under the arm when you are a gallant member of the British Royal Air Force?

    His trousers bag at the knees.

11. (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
12. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

13. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Warner. (Alb. Eng.) to this entry?)

• Korean: 백 (baek)

• ABG, AGB, BGA, GBA, gab

From French bague.

bag

1. ring

• bagu

Either of substratum origin or from a Vulgar Latin *begō, from Late Latin bīgō, from Latin bīga. Less likely from Greek βάζω (vázo, “put in, set on”). May have originally referred to putting animals under a yoke. Compare Romanian băga, bag.

bag (past participle bãgatã)

1. I put, place, apply.

• bãgari / bãgare
• bãgat

• pun

bag f

1. boat

• Rhymes: -æː

From Old Norse bak (“back”).

bag

1. behind

bag c (singular definite bagen, plural indefinite bage)

1. (anatomy) behind, bottom, butt, buttocks
2. seat (part of clothing)

• (behind): bagdel, ende, røv (informal)
• (seat): buksebag

bag

1. behind

Verbal noun of bage (“bake”).

bag n

1. pastry

• bagværk

bag

1. imperative of bage

From French bague (“ring”).

bag

1. ring

bag

1. cheek

• bagg

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.

• IPA^(key): /bæɡ/

bag m (definite singular bagen, indefinite plural bager, definite plural bagene)

1. A purse more or less similar to a bag or sack.
2. (on a baby carriage) a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.

• “bag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• bagg

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.

bag m (definite singular bagen, indefinite plural bagar, definite plural bagane)

1. A purse more or less similar to a bag or sack.
2. (on a baby carriage) a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.

• “bag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• bāch

From Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”) Cognate to Old English bēag

bāg m

1. a ring

From Sanskrit व्याघ्र (vyāghra).

bag

1. tiger

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.

bag c

1. A kind of large bag; a duffel bag

From Meriam bag.

bag

1. (anatomy, eastern dialect) cheek

• masa (western dialect)

bag (definite accusative bagy, plural baglar)

1. garden