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.
a.
a woman.
b.
a prostitute or disreputable woman.
5.
Often Offensive. a pert, playful young woman or girl.
Origin: 1400–50; late ME bagage < MF, equiv. to OF bag(ues) bundles, packs (perh. < ON; see bag) + -age-age
The trunks, bags, parcels, and suitcases in which one carries one's belongings while traveling; luggage.
The movable equipment and supplies of an army.
Superfluous or burdensome practices, regulations, ideas, or traits.
A woman prostitute.
An impudent girl or woman.
[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.]