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Baggage
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- 1 Portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or pulling personal items while traveling uncountable, usually
"Please put your baggage in the trunk."
- 2 cases used to carry belongings when traveling wordnet
- 3 Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively. informal, uncountable, usually
"This person has got a lot of emotional baggage."
- 4 the portable equipment and supplies of an army wordnet
- 5 A woman. Romeo and Juliet, 3.5. Lord Capulet to his daughter, Juliet. "Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church o’ Thursday, Or never after look me in the face. Speak not; reply not; do not answer me." countable, derogatory, obsolete, usually
"Betty and Molly (they were soft-hearted baggages) felt for their master--pitied their poor master!"
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- 6 a worthless or immoral woman wordnet
- 7 An army's portable equipment; its baggage train. uncountable, usually
"Friedrich decides to go down the River; he himself to Lowen, perhaps near twenty miles farther down, but where there is a Bridge and Highway leading over; Prince Leopold, with the heavier divisions and baggages, to Michelau, some miles nearer, and there to build his Pontoons and cross."
Etymology
From Middle English bagage, from Old French bagage, baguage, from bague (“bundle, sack”), of Germanic/North Germanic origin, probably from the same ultimate source as Old Norse baggi (“pack, bundle”). Compare also bag. By surface analysis, bag + -age.
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