Synonyms for bag
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : bag |
| Phonetic Transcription : bæg |
Top 10 synonyms for bag Other synonyms for the word bag
- acquire
- apprehend
- attaché
- balloon
- billow
- bulge
- capture
- carry-on
- carryall
- case
- collar
- duffel
- expertise
- favorite activity
- flap
- flop
- gain
- get
- hang
- haversack
- hobby
- holdall
- hook
- kill
- knapsack
- land
- lop
- nab
- net
- pocketbook
- poke
- preference
- purse
- rucksack
- sac
- sack
- saddlebag
- sag
- satchel
- seize
- shoot
- speciality
- suitcase
- swell
- take
- thing
- tote
- trap
Définition of bag
Origin :- c.1200, bagge, from Old Norse baggi or a similar Scandinavian source; not found in other Germanic languages, perhaps ultimately of Celtic origin. Disparaging slang for "woman" dates from 1924 (though various specialized senses of this are much older). Meaning "person's area of interest or expertise" is 1964, from Black English slang, from jazz sense of "category," probably via notion of putting something in a bag.
- To be left holding the bag (and presumably nothing else), "cheated, swindled" is attested by 1793. Many figurative senses are from the notion of the game bag (late 15c.) into which the product of the hunt was placed; e.g. the verb meaning "to kill game" (1814) and its colloquial extension to "catch, seize, steal" (1818). To let the cat out of the bag "reveal the secret" is from 1760.
- noun container for one's possesions
- noun special interest
- verb catch
- verb droop
- Grace took out of her bag a guest towel she was embroidering.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
- And now I must pack up a few necessaries in my bag, and be off to Mr. Brunton's.
- Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
- With his bag in hand, he wandered through the streets, uncertain what to do or where to go.
- Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
- That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- I have a bag at my belt, camarade, and you have but to put your fist into it for what you want.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- On these occasions he always determined to clear out the bag.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- He felt that modern methods and the best usage might not have approved of the bag.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- He's a sawhorse—he's as heavy in th' head as a bag of salt; he'll never do no good to nobody.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- The porter wheeled a truck, bearing John's trunk and bag, up to them as he spoke.
- Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
- Over his shoulder he carried a bag, tied round and round with a rope.
- Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
Antonyms for bag
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