baggage
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
baggage (uncountable)
- (usually, uncountable) Luggage; traveling equipment
- Please put your baggage in the trunk.
- (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.
- (obsolete, countable, pejorative) 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?
- 1936: Like the Phoenix by Anthony Bertram
- (military, countable 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 Bolesław 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.
- 2007, Norman Davies, No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945, New York: Penguin, p 305:
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