luggage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The bags and cases you carry your belongings in when travelling.

   We checked in our luggage and headed straight to the gate.

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Simplified etymology

Luggage literally refers to things that are lugged about. It derives from the late Middle English verb lug, probably of Scandinavian origin. Any historical connection with the northern English and Scottish lug meaning “ear” is uncertain.

1590s, lug (“to drag”) + -age, literally “that which is lugged, dragged around”. Duplicate -g- is to clarify pronunciation of the vowel ‘u’ (which is pronounced unchanged from lug). Compare baggage.

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