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bag⋅gage

[bag-ij]
–noun
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.
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
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bag·gage   (bāg'ĭj)   
n.  
  1. The trunks, bags, parcels, and suitcases in which one carries one's belongings while traveling; luggage.

  2. The movable equipment and supplies of an army.

  3. Superfluous or burdensome practices, regulations, ideas, or traits.

    1. A woman prostitute.

    2. 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.]
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