different between baggage vs bags

English

Etymology

From Middle English bagage, from Old French bagage, from bague (“bundle”), from Germanic (compare bag).

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?g'?j, IPA^(key): /?bæ??d?/
• • Hyphenation: bag?gage
  • Rhymes: -æ??d?

Noun

baggage (usually uncountable, plural baggages)

1. (uncountable) Portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or pulling personal items while traveling

Uncountable synonyms: luggage; gear; stuff

Countable synonyms: bags; suitcases

2. (uncountable, informal) Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively.

   This person has got a lot of emotional baggage.
3. (obsolete, countable, derogatory) A woman.
   • 1936: Like the Phoenix by Anthony Bertram

     However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

   • 1964: My Fair Lady (film)

     Shall we ask this baggage to sit down or shall we just throw her out of the window?

4. (military, countable (obsolete) and uncountable) An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.
   • 2007, Norman Davies, No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945, New York: Penguin, p 305:

     In Poland, for example, the unknown Boles?aw Bierut, who appeared in 1944 in the baggage of the Red Army, and who played a prominent role as a ‘non-party figure’ in the Lublin Committee, turned out to be a Soviet employee formerly working for the Comintern.

Derived terms

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?gz, IPA^(key): /bæ?z/, /bæ??z/

Etymology 1

Noun

bags

1. plural of bag
2. (often in the phrase 'bags of') A large quantity.

   No need to rush, there's bags of time.

   Please take as many coat hangers as you like. I've got bags.

3. (slang) Loose-fitting trousers.

Verb

bags

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bag

Etymology 2

Grammatical extension of third-person singular form of bag (“make first claim on something”).

Alternative forms

• baggs

Verb

bags (third-person singular simple present bagses, present participle bagsing, simple past and past participle bagsed)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To reserve for oneself.
   • 2006, Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice, page 81,

     So you were thrilled, and we picked out the mare for Harriet, and you bagsed the black, and I had the chestnut, and we all rode away one day.

   • 2007, Debra Oswald. Getting Air, page 66,

     Mum bagsed being the priestess who got to dangle Stone over the volcano by his ankles.

   • 2008, Kate Dellar-Evans, Best of Friends: The First Thirty Years of the Friendly Street Poets, page 13,

     Battered armchairs and a sofa were bagsed first; they were more comfortable than the school chairs that could get hard.

   • 2009, J. Lodge, Black Mail, page 316,

     ‘Hey, it?s my turn in the front,’ Kalista called as she realised her brother had bagsed the front seat.

Synonyms

• (US) have dibs on
• bagsy

Antonyms

• (dated) fains

Interjection

bags

1. Used to claim something for oneself, especially in the combination 'Bags I'.

   Bags I sit in the front seat!

Anagrams

• GBAs, GBAS, gabs

Danish

Noun

bags c

1. indefinite genitive singular of bag

Swedish

Noun

bags

1. indefinite genitive singular of bag