baggage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or pulling personal items while traveling

   Please put your baggage in the trunk.

2. 2
   noun

   Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively.

   This person has got a lot of emotional baggage.

3. 3
   noun

   A woman. A female, especially one who is saucy, impudent.

   "Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church o’ Thursday, Or never after look me in the face. Speak not; reply not; do not answer me."

4. 4
   noun

   An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.

   Friedrich decides to go down the River; he himself to Lowen, perhaps near twenty miles farther down, but where there is a Bridge and Highway leading over; Prince Leopold, with the heavier divisions and baggages, to Michelau, some miles nearer, and there to build his Pontoons and cross.

5. 5
   noun

   cases used to carry belongings when traveling

6. 6
   noun

   the portable equipment and supplies of an army

7. 7
   noun

   a worthless or immoral woman

Etymology

From Middle English bagage, from Old French bagage, baguage, from bague (“bundle, sack”), of Germanic/North Germanic origin, probably from the same ultimate source as Old Norse baggi (“pack, bundle”). Compare also bag. By surface analysis, bag + -age. The old meaning of "nasty woman" likely derives from the sense of "something awkward to be carried" (compare faggot).