bagger

See also: Bagger

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈbæɡɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbæɡə/
  • (Southern England, Australia) IPA(key): /ˈbæːɡə/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: bag‧ger

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English bagger, baggere, baggare, equivalent to bag +‎ -er (agent noun suffix).

Noun

bagger (plural baggers)

  1. One who bags.
    1. A retail employee who bags customers' purchases and carries them to the customers' vehicles.
      Synonyms: courtesy clerk, sacker
      Hyponym: bag boy
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Etymology tree
Old Norse baggibor.?
Old French baguebor.?
Middle English bagge
English bag
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-os?
Proto-Indo-European *-o-
Proto-Indo-European *-so-
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós
Proto-Italic *-āsijos
Proto-Italic *-āsios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
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Latin -ārius
Old French -ierbor.
Middle English -er
English -er
English bagger

    From bag + -er (relational noun suffix).

    Noun

    bagger (plural baggers)

    1. (sometimes attributive) A touring motorcycle equipped with saddlebags.

    Anagrams

    Dutch

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈbɑ.ɣər/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation: bag‧ger
    • Rhymes: -ɑɣər

    Etymology 1

    From Middle Dutch baggaerds, of uncertain origin, but possibly a late Indo-European substrate borrowing shared with Proto-Slavic *bagno (“silt, peat, mud”).[1]

    Noun

    bagger f (uncountable, no diminutive)

    1. mud, dredge, dirt
      De varkens wroeten in de bagger. ― The pigs are rooting in the mud.
    2. filth, muck, any mucky or dirty substance (such as dredge)
    3. (slang) junk, crap, stuff (substandard objects)
      Wat voor bagger heb je nou gekocht? ― What kind of crap did you buy this time?
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    • Afrikaans: bagger

    Adjective

    bagger (comparative baggerder, superlative baggerst)

    1. (slang) crap, terrible, bleh
      Het weer is bagger vandaag. ― The weather is crap today.
    Declension
    Declension of bagger
    uninflected bagger
    inflected baggere
    comparative baggerder
    positive comparative superlative
    predicative/adverbial bagger baggerder het baggerst
    het baggerste
    indefinite m./f. sing. baggere baggerdere baggerste
    n. sing. bagger baggerder baggerste
    plural baggere baggerdere baggerste
    definite baggere baggerdere baggerste
    partitive baggers baggerders —

    References

    1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*bagnò”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 33: “n. o (b?) ‘marsh’”

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

    bagger

    1. inflection of baggeren:
      1. first-person singular present indicative
      2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
      3. imperative

    German

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    bagger

    1. inflection of baggern:
      1. first-person singular present
      2. singular imperative
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