† baggien.
/ˈbaɡi/, U.S. /ˈbæɡi/, Scottish English /ˈbaɡɪ/ Scottish.
A Scottish diminutive of bag n.; the stomach.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [noun]
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1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 165 A Guid New-year I wish thee, Maggie! Hae, there's a ripp to thy auld baggie.
Draft additions December 2006
Originally North American. A small bag; spec. (also with capital initial) (a proprietary name for) a small sealable plastic bag, used esp. for containing food or drugs.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > small
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1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Baggie, a little bag.
1955 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 28 June tm179/2 Baggies... Bags made of flexible transparent sheeting, for general utility wrapping and storing purposes.
1976 M. Apple Oranging of Amer. 32 In her refrigerator she had only brewer's yeast, a coconut, and sprouted mung beans in a baggy thick with mold.
1984 M. Piercy Fly away Home vi. 75 The ashes came out of the back of the funeral parlour in a plastic baggie, like lettuce from the supermarket.
1990 K. Wozencraft Rush i. 10 When the girl handed me the pot, I tried to look like a connoisseur, opening several baggies and sniffing at their contents.
2002 J. Ray Step-ball-change x. 135 I rifled through the refrigerator for the plastic Baggie of braunschweiger.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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