[bag-ij] 
| 1. | trunks, suitcases, etc., used in traveling; luggage. |
| 2. | the portable equipment of an army. |
| 3. | things that encumber one's freedom, progress, development, or adaptability; impediments: intellectual baggage that keeps one from thinking clearly; neurotic conflicts that arise from struggling with too much emotional baggage. |
| 4. | Disparaging and Offensive.
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| 5. | Often Offensive. a pert, playful young woman or girl. |
| bag·gage (bāg'ĭj) n.
[Middle English bagage, from Old French bague, bundle, perhaps of Germanic origin. Sense 4, perhaps from French bagasse, from Provençal bagassa, ultimately from Arabic baġīy, prostitute, from baġā, to fornicate; see bġy in Semitic roots.] |
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