bagger

See also: Bagger

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbæɡɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbæɡə/
• (Southern England, Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈbæːɡə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Etymology 1

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

• brown-bagger
• carpet bagger
• double-bagger
• four-bagger
• gallybagger
• Munro bagger
• rag-bagger
• rag bagger
• she-bagger
• teabagger
• three-bagger
• two-bagger
• wagger-pagger-bagger

 

Etymology 2

From bag +‎ -er (relational noun suffix).

Noun

bagger (plural baggers)

1. A touring motorcycle equipped with saddlebags.

Anagrams

• beggar

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑ.ɣər/

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• 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”).

Noun

bagger f (uncountable)

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

• baggeren

 

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	—

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

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Verb

bagger

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