bag – English noun declension

English noun forms of bag

Noun: bag
Singularbag
Pluralbags

Sample Sentences

  • Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.
  • And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing. [1976, Newton Thornburg, Cutter and Bone, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 250:]
  • They knew it and sometimes used it as a way to get her to glox on, which was not her usual bag. [1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 20:]
  • The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
  • He headed back to the bag.
  • A bag of three apples could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Or, 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}.
  • the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents
  • Meronym: teats
  • Her bag is coming in nicely now.
  • [H]e had once lost his bag, and a considerable quantity of hair, which had been cut off by some rascal in his passage through Ludgate, during the lord mayor's procession. [1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:]
  • He had on a suit of Manchester velvet, Lined with white satten, a Bag, lace Ruffles, and a very handsome sword which the King had given to him. [1774, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 1 December]
  • 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 […] [2013, Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom, page 14:]
  • What about the time you got shot eight times and then played a show the same week? ¶ Oh yeah that was beautiful, I mean it was fucked up that I was shot, but as far as goin' to get that bag I'm always gonna go get that bag. [2014 August 28, Sam Wilhoit, quoting OJ da Juiceman, “The Life and Times of OJ da Juiceman”, in VICE, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2023:]
  • A bag refers to money. So to get a bag or even secure a bag means that you are acquiring money. [[2019 February 6, Rasha Ali, “Get hip to all the slang words and phrases your kids are using and what they mean, okurrr”, in USA Today, McLean, V.A.: Gannett, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 May 2023:]
  • Secure the bag, secure the bag
  • Grab the stash and hit the trap [2019 April 4, “Secure The Bag”, Skripteh (lyrics), 1:33:]
  • Coulda got a bag last year
  • But now I get a bag for a verse [2017 May 2, Figure Flows, “Money Right”, in Big Figures ft. Purple, from 1:18:]
  • My hoodie cost a bag three, my runners cost a bag two [2023 June 18, “100mph Freestyle x3”, Clavish (lyrics), 1:30:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Old Norse baggibor.?
3. Old French baguebor.?
4. Middle English bagge
5. English bag
6. 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. See: Middle English Nouns 'bagge', Middle English Nouns 'bagge', Old Norse Nouns 'baggi', Old Norse Nouns 'bǫggr'.

Verbs referencing "bag"

Norwegian Bokmål Nouns bag, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns bag, Swedish Nouns bag, French Nouns bagage, Zulu Nouns ubhaka, English Nouns ita-bag.