English
wagon
see also: Wagon
Etymology

Sense 8 (“woman of loose morals; obnoxious woman”) is probably a derogatory and jocular reference to a woman being “ridden”, that is, mounted for the purpose of sexual intercourse.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈwæɡ(ə)n/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈwæɡən/
  • (Australia) IPA: /ˈwæːɡən/
Noun

wagon (plural wagons)

  1. A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people). [from late 15th c.]
    Antonyms: carriage
  2. Abbreviation of toy wagon; A child's riding toy, with the same structure as a wagon (sense 1), pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.
  3. (US, chiefly, New England) A shopping cart.
  4. (rail) A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
    Synonyms: railroad car, car, railway wagon, railway carriage, carriage, railtruck, truck, coach
    Hypernyms: rolling stock
  5. Short for dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”).
  6. (slang) Short for paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).
  7. (chiefly, Australia, US, slang) Short for station wagon (“type of car in which the roof extends rearward to produce an enclosed area in the position of and serving the function of the boot (trunk)”); (by extension) a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car.
  8. (Ireland, slang, derogatory, dated) A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow.
    Synonyms: Thesaurus:promiscuous woman
  9. (math) A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
  10. (slang) Buttocks.
Translations Translations Verb

wagon (wagons, present participle wagoning; simple past and past participle wagoned)

  1. (transitive, chiefly, US) To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
  2. (intransitive, chiefly, US) To travel in a wagon.
Wagon
Etymology

Derived either as a synonym of Wain, i.e. Charles' Wain, or directly from the wagonlike shape of the constellation.

See wagon and wain.

Proper noun
  1. (constellation) A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle or cart. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid.
    Synonyms: Big Dipper, Plough, Charles' Wain, Drinking Gourd, Northern Ladle, Northern Waggoner, Wain, Great Wagon, Bandwagon, Saptarishi, Saucepan, triones


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