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)

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

Etymology 2

From bag +‎ -er (relational noun suffix).

Noun

bagger (plural baggers)

  1. 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)

  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.
Inflection
Inflection of bagger
uninflected bagger
inflected baggere
comparative baggerder
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial baggerbaggerderhet baggerst
het baggerste
indefinite m./f. sing. baggerebaggerderebaggerste
n. sing. baggerbaggerderbaggerste
plural baggerebaggerderebaggerste
definite baggerebaggerderebaggerste
partitive baggersbaggerders—

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, →ISSN, 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. imperative

German

Pronunciation
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Verb

bagger

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