different between bags vs bads

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

English

Noun

bads

1. plural of bad

Anagrams

• ABSD, ADBs, ADS-B, DBAs, DBSA, SDBA, dabs, dbas

Danish

Noun

bads n

1. indefinite genitive singular of bad

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *bad-, from the o-grade b?od?- of Proto-Indo-European *b?ed?- (“to press, to bend”) (whence also b?da, q.v.). The original meaning was probably “that which bends, presses (one's body),” from which “hunger”; cf. related Sanskrit ???? (b?dha?, “difficulty, obstacle”). Cognates include dialectal Lithuanian bãdas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bats]

Noun

bads m (1st declension)

1. hunger, starvation, famine (a lack of sufficient food, especially for a long time; the accompanying feeling)

2. (figuratively) a lack of something perceived as important, essential; dearth, deprivation

Declension

Related terms

• badoties

References

Swedish

Noun

bads

1. indefinite genitive singular of bad
2. indefinite genitive plural of bad

Verb

bads

1. past tense passive of be.
2. past tense passive of bedja.