swagn.1
/swaɡ/, U.S. /swæɡ/ΘΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun]
fetlesc893
pougheOE
codOE
bag?c1225
pokec1300
scripc1300
swag1303
pocket1350
pursec1390
sacketc1440
skyrsaya1500
scrippagea1616
sac1814
savoy bag1854
keister1882
sack1904
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 502 Þere was a wycche, and made a bagge, A bely of leþyr, a grete swagge.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun] > person
jettera1400
flirdom?a1500
facerc1500
termagant1508
rutterkina1529
bellomy1535
bystour1535
roister1549
swash1549
rush-buckler1551
roisterkin1553
swashbuckler1560
dash-buckler1567
swinge-buckler?1577
whiffler1581
huff-snuff1582
swish-swash1582
fixnet1583
swag1588
swasher?1589
kill-cow1590
roister-doister1592
dagger1597
flaunting Fabian1598
tisty-tosty1598
huff-cap1600
swaggerer1600
burgullian1601
huff-muff1602
tear-cat1606
blusterer1609
wag-feather1611
wind-cutter1611
bilbo-lorda1625
tearer1633
cacafuegoa1640
bravado1643
Hector1655
scaramouch1662
swashado1663
huffer1664
bluster-mastera1670
Drawcansir1672
bully huff1673
huff1674
belswagger1680
valienton1681
blunderbuss1685
Draw can bully1698
bouncer1764
Bobadil1771
bounce1819
pistol1828
sacripant1829
hufty1847
bucko1883
1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 3 Will you not sweare as commonly you do, like a lewd swag?
1589 ‘Marphoreus’ Martins Months Minde sig. F2v Kaitiues, lewd swagges, ambicious wretches.
1589 T. Cooper Admon. People of Eng. 62 Hee termeth him a Swag. What hee meaneth by that, I will not diuine: but as all the rest is lewde, so surely herein hee hath a lewde meaning.
1764 T. Legg Low-life (ed. 3) 44 Munster-Cracks, Connaught-Peers, Ulster-Swags, Leinster-Fortune-Hunters, Welch-Gentle Men.
3. A swaying or lurching movement; for spec. dialect uses see quots. 18253, 1876.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [noun] > lurching > a lurch
swag1660
latcha1687
stoit1808
lurch1819
wallop1820
1660 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania i. 16 In goes he to the Boate..and the suddenness of the swag overturn'd the Vessel upon the Passengers.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 44 Couplings should be placed near the bearings, as there is there the least swag.
1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides (1830) 75 ‘Oh, yes, Sir,’ said he, and with an emphasis and a swag of the head.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Swag,..2. Inclination from the perpendicular.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters x. 251 One would think a ‘strong-minded’ woman must necessarily have the figure of a horse-guard, the swag of a drayman, and the sensibility of a carcase-butcher.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Side-swag or Side-sway, a declivity close to the road side, threatening a carriage with an overbalance.
1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross II. ix. 204 The canvas curtain had failed to resist the swag and the bellying of the blast.
1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 46 I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch's swag and swing.
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the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that which hangs or is suspended > a pendulum
pendant1644
balance1647
pendulum1660
swag1686
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > swinging or oscillation of suspended body > that which > pendulum
pendant1644
balance1647
pendulum1660
swag1686
1686 W. Molyneux Sciothericum Telescopicum x. 45 The Pendulum or swagg is to be lengthned or shortned as is requisite.
5. A heavy fall or drop. local.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > heavy fall
squatc1350
plump1596
gulch1671
sosh1687
soss1718
swaga1728
souse1774
dunt1828
swat1847
slump1850
gutser1918
a1728 W. Kennett MS Coll. Provinc. Words (BL Lansdowne MS 1033) (at cited word) One that falls down wh some violence and noise is said to come down wh a swag.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire One comes down with a swag upon the spring of a bicycle, or upon a hay-stack, or boggy ground, &c.
1912 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 805/2 They heard the sound they most desired, the heavy swag as, reassured, he dropped himself down again.
6.
a. A wreath or festoon of flowers, foliage, or fruit fastened up at both ends and hanging down in the middle, used as an ornament; also of a natural festoon.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > flower arrangement > garland or wreath
flower-garland1303
garland1303
aneusc1500
whip1513
crants1592
anadem1598
wreathing1600
festoon1610
swag1795
lei1843
wreathage1872
garlandage1885
the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that which hangs or is suspended > that which hangs between two points > flowers, leaves, etc.
festoon1610
swag1795
1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 64 A pair of handsome swags of Flowers painted on the Pannels.
1813 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 228/2 Swaggs of fruit and flowers.
1846 Art Union Jrnl. Jan. 36 A..scroll of foliage..flanked by living birds of a peculiar character (often used by Gibbons in his swags and trophies).
1886 Law Times 80 310/1 A deep frieze and cornice, from which depend a series of festoons and swags.
1906 A. Quiller-Couch Sir J. Constantine xiv The creepers which festooned the rock here and there in swags as thick as the Gauntlet's hawser.
b. Theatre. A festooned stage-curtain or drapery, fastened similarly. Also transferred and attributive.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > curtain
curtain1598
drop1781
iron curtain1794
green curtain1805
greeny1821
tableau curtain1830
drop-curtain1832
rag1848
hipping1858
cloth1881
safety curtain1881
asbestos curtain1890
olio1923
tab1929
sail curtain1941
iron1951
swag1959
1959 Rae & Southern Internat. Vocab. Techn. Theatre Terms 58 74 Swag border.
1961 J. Osborne Entertainer 11 Different swags can be lowered for various scenes to break up the acting areas.
1982 A. Barr & P. York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 136/3 Lots of pretty pelmets and a few swags, variations on the theme of stage curtains—not like those dreadful draped net affairs one sees from the bypass.
7. A sinking, subsidence; concrete a depression in the ground which collects water, esp. one caused by mining excavations. local.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > containing water
pan1494
peat pota1500
waterhole1688
basin1712
tinaja1835
swag1848
water pocket1863
rock hole1869
1848 Holden's Dollar Mag. Aug. 475/2 A ‘Swag’ is often met with in the Western country. It is a concave spot, sunk in below the level by nature.
1856 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 17 ii. 518 The wet ‘swag’ must be relieved by an additional..channel into the exit-drain.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Swag, subsidence or weighting of the roof.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 July 8/2 Two brothers..were drowned while bathing in an old colliery swag at Bradley, near Wolverhampton.
1891 B'ham Weekly Post 28 July 8/3 The evidence showed that the deceased was bathing in a swag on Saturday.
8.
a. Cant. A shop. Cf. swag-shop in Compounds 2.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop
shopc1390
seldc1450
cheap-house1606
bursea1661
swag1676
repository1725
store1731
warehouse1754
sale-shop1757
shoppie1773
emporium1803
mercantile1984
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Swag, a shop.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew
1785 in F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue
b. One who keeps a ‘swag-shop’. slang.
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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 349/2 One in Holborn, and the other at Black Tom's (himself formerly a street-seller, now ‘a small swag’).
9. A thief's plunder or booty; gen. a quantity of money or goods unlawfully acquired, gains dishonestly made. slang.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun]
theft962
bribec1425
stoutheriec1440
booty1567
thievery1583
snapping1591
filcha1627
pilferagec1626
swag1794
stealing1839
stuff1865
score1914
hot stuff1924
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > spoil or plunder
reifOE
fang1016
fengc1175
purchasec1325
predec1330
robberyc1330
robbingsc1330
spoila1340
spoila1382
chevisance1393
waitha1400
fee14..
pilferc1400
pelfa1425
spreathc1425
butinc1450
emprisec1450
gain1473
despoil1474
pelfry?a1475
pilfery1489
spulyie1507
cheat1566
bootinga1572
booty1574
escheat1587
boot1598
exuvial1632
bootyn1635
polling1675
expilation1715
prog1727
swag1794
filch1798
spreaghery1814
stake1819
1794 Sessions Papers Central Criminal Court Jan. 341/1 There are very few gentlemen here on the jury but what know what a swag is; the meaning is, a bundle of clothes that are stolen from any place.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) The Swag is a term used in speaking of any booty you have lately obtained..except money.
1827 W. Scott Let. to Croker in Lockhart I have been stealing from you, and..I send you a sample of the swag.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xix. 327 ‘It's all arranged about bringing off the swag, is it?’ asked the Jew.
1862 C. S. Calverley Verses & Transl. (ed. 2) 95 While one hope lingers, the cracksman's fingers Drop not his hard-earned ‘swag’.
1891 Newcastle Daily Jrnl. 18 Mar. 5/3 This genial gentleman went off to America with the swag.
10. Australian and New Zealand. The bundle of personal belongings carried by a traveller in the bush, a tramp, or a miner. Frequently in colloquial phrases to hump the swag: see to hump one's swag (or drum) at hump v. 2; on the swag: on one's travels.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > personal or movable property > personal belongings > portable
harnessc1330
baggagec1430
truss1587
luggage1596
traps1813
kit1834
swag1853
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > equipment for a journey > baggage
trousseauc1230
harnessc1330
fardel1388
flittinga1400
stuff?a1400
baggagec1430
trussellc1440
carriagec1450
trussagec1500
traffic1538
trussery1548
traffe1566
sumpture1567
truss1587
needment1590
luggage1596
sumptery1620
piece1809
traps1813
roll-up1831
dunnage1834
kit1834
way baggage1836
swag1853
drum1861
swag bag1892
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag
cloak-bagc1540
mallet1612
Peter1667
sac de nuit1814
carpet-bag1830
roll-up1831
pikau1836
travelling bag1838
swag1853
suit bag1869
bluey1878
Matilda1889
shiralee1892
port1898
handgrip1915
sea-bag1918
blanket pack1920
weekender1929
valpack1934
weekend bag1946
swag bag1951
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > travelling from place to place [phrase] > wandering > as a tramp
on (also upon) the road1642
on the pad1665
on (the) tramp1760
on the wallaby track1865
on (also in) a (or the) shaughraun1922
on the swag1941
1853 J. Rochfort Adventures Surveyor vi. 49 Disregarding the state of the roads,..we strapped on our ‘swags’, consisting of a pair of blankets and a spare pair of trousers, and started for the diggings.
1864 J. Rogers New Rush i. 1 Their ample swags upon a cart are tied.
1881 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland I. v. 43 The quart-pots were now put on to boil, swags were opened and food produced.
1889 H. H. Romilly Verandah in New Guinea 5 Every digger in former days carried in imagination a gigantic nugget in his swag.
1935 ‘J. Guthrie’ Little Country xxi. 312 You shouldered your swag and left to seek the foot of another rainbow.
1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang v. 41 Such expressions as to swag it and go on the swag need no elaboration.
1947 D. M. Davin Gorse blooms Pale 76 Jack went off on the swag for a few years.
1966 J. K. Baxter Pig Island Lett. 16 No books, no bread Are left in my swag.
1971 N.Z. Listener 19 Apr. 56/5 He had a compass in his swag but it was pukeroo'd.
11. A great quantity of something (now chiefly Australian and New Zealand); a large draught of liquor (dialect). (Cf. Sc. swack.)
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount
felec825
muchc1230
good wone1297
plentyc1300
bushelc1374
sight1390
mickle-whata1393
forcea1400
manynessa1400
multitudea1400
packc1400
a good dealc1430
greata1450
sackful1484
power1489
horseloadc1500
mile1508
lump1523
a deal?1532
peckc1535
heapa1547
mass1566
mass1569
gallon1575
armful1579
cart-load1587
mickle1599
bushelful1600–12
a load1609
wreck1612
parisha1616
herd1618
fair share1650
heapa1661
muchness1674
reams1681
hantle1693
mort1694
doll?1719
lift1755
acre1759
beaucoup1760
ton1770
boxload1795
boatload1807
lot1811
dollop1819
swag1819
faggald1824
screed1826
Niagara1828
wad1828
lashings1829
butt1831
slew1839
ocean1840
any amount (of)1848
rake1851
slather1857
horde1860
torrent1864
sheaf1865
oodlesa1867
dead load1869
scad1869
stack1870
jorum1872
a heap sight1874
firlot1883
oodlings1886
chunka1889
whips1888
God's quantity1895
streetful1901
bag1917
fid1920
fleetful1923
mob1927
bucketload1930
pisspot1944
shitload1954
megaton1957
mob-o-ton1975
gazillion1978
buttload1988
shit ton1991
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > a drink of > large drink
pulla1500
rousea1593
load1594
carouse1599
elbow-healtha1627
skinful1788
swag1819
nor'-wester1835
long beer1892
snootful1918
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) A swag of any thing signifies emphatically a great deal.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Swag, a large draught of any liquid.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 373/1 The term Swag, or Swack, or Sweg, is,..a Scotch word, meaning a large collection, a ‘lot’.
1863 Tyneside Songs 93 An' wishin'..For a swag o' good Newcassel yell.
1929 K. S. Prichard Coonardoo 49 A boy with a swag of ideals, Hughie was still, Mrs. Bessie realized.
1949 F. Sargeson I saw in my Dream ix. 75 I suppose you blokes get told a lot of yarns about a crook missis and a swag of kids.
1963 Weekly News (Auckland) 5 June 37/2 There was a big swag of fowls on the station running semiwild.
1973 New Journalist (Australia) July–Aug. 4/1 It is cheaper to buy a swag of aged situation comedies..than to produce even the simplest studio-bound program in Australia.
Compounds
C1.
swag lamp n.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > externally wired
swag light1966
swag lamp1970
1970 Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 28/6 (advt.) Swag lamps; chromed chairs, easy chairs.
swag light n. North American an overhead light externally wired so that the flex hangs in a loop across the ceiling towards the power socket.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > externally wired
swag light1966
swag lamp1970
1966 M. M. Pegler Dict. Interior Design (1967) 436 Swag light, a lamp or light fixture which is hooked into the ceiling with the electric cord..swagged from the hanging point to the nearest wall, and then down to the floor outlet where it is plugged in.
swag-like adv. after the fashion of a bushman's ‘swag’.
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1890 Argus (Melbourne) 2 Aug. 4/2 He strapped the whole lot together swag-like.
swagman n. (a) a man engaged in the ‘swag-trade’ or who keeps a ‘swag-shop’ (see Compounds 2); (b) Australian and New Zealand, a man who travels with a ‘swag’.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of cheap or trashy goods
swag1829
swagman1851
schlockmeister1953
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > carrying belongings
swagman1851
swagger1855
swagsman1869
swaggie1892
bagman1896
drummer1898
battler1900
bindle-man1900
bindle-stiff1900
bluey-humper1903
bag lady1972
bag woman1977
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 447/2 The ‘swag-men’ are often confounded with the ‘lot-sellers’.
1883 ‘Keighley’ Who are You? 36 Then took a drink of tea... Such as the swagmen in our goodly land Have with some Humour named the post-and-rail.
1890 Argus (Melbourne) 7 June 4/2 The regular swagman, carrying his ration bags, which will sometimes contain nearly 20 days' provender in flour and sugar and tea.
swagsman n. †(a) = swagman n. (b); (b) (see quot. 1890).
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > receiver of stolen goods > [noun] > one who takes charge of goods
swagsman1869
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > carrying belongings
swagman1851
swagger1855
swagsman1869
swaggie1892
bagman1896
drummer1898
battler1900
bindle-man1900
bindle-stiff1900
bluey-humper1903
bag lady1972
bag woman1977
1869 in W. M. Hugo Hist. First Bushmen's Club Austral. Colonies (1872) 30 A swagsman, and not ashamed to own it. I have done the ‘wallaby’ for years past in search of a billet.
1874 A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences xv. 212 One source of annoyance to the squatters is the ‘swagsmen’..or men who travel about the country, professedly in search of work, but who do not in reality want it.
1879 J. B. Stephens Drought & Doctrine in Wks. 309 (Farmer) A swagsman..with our bottle at his lips.
1880 G. Sutherland Tales of Goldfields 89 One of these prospecting swagsmen was journeying towards Maryborough.
1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Swagsman,..an accomplice who takes charge of the plunder.
C2. slang. Denoting the trade in certain classes of small, trifling, or trashy articles, those engaged in such trade, etc.
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society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [adjective] > sordid or petty trading
huckstering1593
swag1829
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of cheap or trashy goods
swag1829
swagman1851
schlockmeister1953
1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 74 It is impossible to describe the applause bestowed upon Delay by the boys of the Blue Anchor, the Cock and Cross, and the Ship and Gun, near the great swag shop in the east.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 333/2 The slaughterer sells by retail; the swag-shop keeper only by wholesale.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 355/1 Of these swag-barrowmen, there are not less than 150.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 355/1 The tinwares of the swag-barrows are nutmeg-graters, bread-graters, beer-warmers, fish-slices, goblets, mugs, save-alls, extinguishers, candle-shades, money-boxes, children's plates, and rattles.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 373/1 The Haberdashery Swag-Shops. By this name the street-sellers have long distinguished the warehouses, or rather shops, where they purchase their goods.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 447/2 The ‘penny apiece’ or ‘swag’ trade.
1904 Daily Chron. 25 July 6/5 Another showman described himself as ‘the cheapest man for all kinds of swag watches, all goers’.
Draft additions September 2008
a. colloquial. Items given away free, typically for promotional purposes, to people attending an event, using a service, etc.; = schwag n. 2. Cf. freebie n.
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > article as gratuity or sales promotion
free gift1703
lagniappe1849
pilón1877
premium1879
freebie1925
swag1961
schwag1995
society > trade and finance > charges > freedom from charge > [noun] > that which is free of charge > given to purchaser by vendor
free gift1909
tilly1922
freebie1925
swag1961
schwag1995
1961 Pittsburgh Courier 21 Oct. 23/5 I..recently encountered the one [sc. airline] that seems to give away the greatest amount of swag... Travel booklets, a silk scarf, a pair of soft slippers, [etc.].
1988 Toronto Star (Nexis) 27 Feb. b5 The T.O. suite provided a place for the IOC delegates to rest. From what? Lugging around all the free swag they picked up here?
1999 Independent 28 May ii. 8/7 Swag—badges, baseball caps, match programmes—is vacuumed up by everyone.
2006 Cosmo Girl! Feb. 19/2 Check out the fun bag of swag we gave our BTL Awards guests!
b. slang (originally U.S.). Marijuana, esp. of low quality (in quot. 1986, fake marijuana); = schwag n. 1.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > marijuana or cannabis
bhang1598
hashish1598
cannabis1765
ganja1800
Indian hemp1803
sabzi1804
cannabin1843
deiamba1851
charas1860
liamba1861
hemp1870
cannabis resin1871
marijuana1874
kef1878
locoweed1898
weed1917
Mary Ann1925
mootah1926
muggle1926
Mary Jane1928
Mary Warner1933
Mary and Johnny1935
Indian hay1936
mu1936
mezz1937
moocah1937
grass1938
jive1938
pot1938
mary1940
reefer1944
rope1944
smoke1946
hash1948
pod1952
gear1954
green1957
smoking weed1957
boo1959
Acapulco1965
doobie1967
Mary J1967
cheeba1971
Maui Wowie1971
4201974
Maui1977
pakalolo1977
spliff1977
draw1979
kush1979
resin1980
bud1982
swag1986
puff1989
chronic1992
schwag1993
hydro1995
1986 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 15 July At least half the ‘marijuana’ arrests on the Common in the past two months involved swag, a street name for counterfeit marijuana which often is herbal tea.
1991 R. A. Jamieson Day at Office 59 He pulled his tobacco out. Should he roll a j? If she lived with Kathy, it must be cool. ‘I've got a wee bit of swag here if you fancy a blow.’
1994 Los Angeles Times 24 Feb. 1 The part-time work covers a bag of ‘swag’ (lower quality marijuana), which can cost $15, or 1/8-ounce of prime ‘skunk’, which goes for $60.
2005 Maclean's 7 Nov. 36/3 Prices range from $40 a 10-seed packet for some Jamaican swag to $345 per pack for something tastier, like Marley's Collie. Each plant, properly nurtured, will yield at least a pound of smokable dope.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
swagn.2
/swaɡ/, U.S. /swæɡ/ U.S. slang (originally and chiefly in African-American usage).
Bold self-assurance in style or manner; an air of great self-confidence or superiority.In quot. 2002 apparently with reference to a type of walk displaying such self-assurance; cf. swagger v. 1a.
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the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun]
pensifulnessc1450
affectation1548
affection1570
affectedness1622
lady aira1637
fastuousness1649
gentility1650
fastuosity1656
vapouring1656
flatulency1662
hoity-toity1668
pretendingness1701
with an air1701
pretension1706
flatulence1711
uppishness1716
high and mightiness1771
pensieness1825
fine-gentlemanism1831
pretentiousness1838
ambitiousness1845
stuckupishness1853
pretensiveness1859
notion1866
side1870
dog1871
hoity-toityism1881
superiority complex1921
snootiness1932
uppitiness1935
snottiness1973
snoot1984
swag2002
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > [noun] > self-confidence
self-assurance1595
self-confidence1604
self-possession1665
aplomb1828
self-assuredness1858
self-efficacy1930
swag2002
2002 A. Westbrook Hip Hoptionary 134 Swag, walk.
2003 ‘Jay-Z’ et al. December 4th (transcribed from song) in Black Album My self-esteem went through the roof, man. I got my swag.
2005 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. 20 Nov. (Sports section) 16/1 ‘We got our swag back,’ Hokies cornerback Jimmy Williams said. ‘It was more of a statement game to show that we're not the Tech of old.’
2012 Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, Va.) 9 Mar. c5/1 He has a persona and a swag when he walks into the gym.
2014 K. C. Tate Hidden Blessings xxiii. 122 I see you,..thinking you got swag. Look at that pose.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† swagadj.
Obsolete. rare.
? Big and blustering.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [adjective]
termagant1546
roisterly1555
swashing1556
puffing1566
roisting1567
cocking1568
braving1579
huffling1582
kill-cow1589
roister-doistering1593
roister-doisterly1593
hufty-tufty1596
swaggering1596
huff-cap1597
sword-and-buckler1598
huffing1602
pyrgopolinizing1605
bold-beatinga1616
swash1635
swaga1640
blustering1652
bravashing1652
hectoring1664
hectorly1676
huffy1677
huff-snuff1693
swashbuckling1693
flustering1698
blustery1739
huffish1755
bravading1812
topping1815
Bobadilish1832
Bobadilian1837
fanfaronading1837
bucko1883
swashbucklering1884
swaggery1886
blokeish1920
blokey1938
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Trag. Barnavelt (1980) ii. vi. 30 Hansom swag fellowes and fitt for fowle play.
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swagv.
/swaɡ/, U.S. /swæɡ/ Now chiefly dialect.in extended use.1770 Ann. Reg. 1769 154/1 Many dreadful clouds..had been swagging about.1790 W. Blake Marriage Heaven & Hell Pl. 2 Hungry clouds swag on the deep.
1. intransitive. To move unsteadily or heavily from side to side or up and down; to sway without control.
a. of a pendulous part of the body, or of the whole person.spec. in Horse Riding: see quot. 1850.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)] > reel, stagger, or sway unsteadily
stackera1300
welt13..
waggera1382
swaver?a1400
blundc1400
swab14..
swabble14..
gogglec1460
reel1477
galay1489
stagger1530
swag1530
stag1561
wheel1832
swig1833
wavel1896
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > sway > heavily
rolla1325
swag1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 744/1 I swagge, as a fatte persons belly swaggeth as he goth, je assouage.
1598 R. Haydocke tr. G. P. Lomazzo Tracte Artes Paintinge ii. 13 Moouing their limmes moderatly, and not permitting them to swag, hang, turne aside and be dilated.
1641 W. Hooke New Englands Teares 11 Here ride some dead men swagging in their deep saddles.
a1712 W. King Acc. Horace's Behaviour in Wks. (1776) III. 36 Bless me, Sir, how many craggs You've drunk of potent ale! No wonder if the belly swaggs.
1838 Fraser's Mag. 17 683 He..swags forward with the gait neither of Christian, Pagan, nor man.
1850 ‘H. Hieover’ Pract. Horsemanship 11 The idea that tall men are apt to, what is technically termed, ‘swag’ on the horse.
1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians ix The stout chief..sat swagging from one side to the other of the carriage.
b. of a structure or something erected or set in position, a boat, or the like. (Also occasionally of a rigid body, to get out of line.)
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)] > reel, stagger, or sway unsteadily > specifically of things
reel1495
stagger1530
swag1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Baccoler,..to tottar, swag, swing, lift, or heaue often vp and downe.
1633 T. James Strange Voy. 79 Which made her [sc. a ship] swag and wallow in her Docke.
1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew ii. sig. G1v These pounds are (as I feel them swag) Light at my heart, tho' heavy in the bag.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 51 Establish their weak stalks, by siefting some more earth about them; especially the Pines, which being more top-heavy are more apt to swag.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 193 Hay will often swag and pitch in the reek after making.
1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 77 These vigilant guards, having remarked certain cages of the ladies swagging somewhat awry.
1793 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1891) XII. 379 The advantage of this latch is, that let the gate swag as it may, it always catches.
1801 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 519/2 The thread, being..unable to bear close packing on the bobin, would swag out by the whirling of the fly.
1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 58 Though we attempted to steady it, the boat swagged.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §839 If hurried, the walls will surely be crippled; that is, they will swag, or swerve from the perpendicular.
1867 D. G. Mitchell Rural Stud. 85 The posts are firm and cannot swag.
c. transferred and figurative. To sway; †to vacillate.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)]
haltc825
flecchec1300
waverc1315
flickerc1325
wag1387
swervea1400
floghter1521
stacker1526
to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530
wave1532
stagger1533
to hang in the wind1536
to waver as, like, with the wind1548
mammer1554
sway1563
dodge1568
erch1584
suspend1585
float1598
swag1608
hoverc1620
hesitate1623
vacillate1623
fluctuate1634
demur1641
balance1656
to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674
to stand shall I, shall I1674
to go shill-I shall-I1700
to stand at shilly-shally1700
to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734
whiffle1737
dilly-dally1740
to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751
oscillate1771
shilly-shally1782
dacker1817
librate1822
humdrum1825
swing1833
(to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848
to back and fill1854
haver1866
wobble1867
shaffle1873
dicker1879
to be on the weigh-scales1886
waffle1894
to think twice1898
to teeter on the brink1902
dither1908
vagulate1918
pern1920
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > sway
wawc888
swang1340
waltera1375
swayve1377
swayc1500
nod1578
weave1596
showd1599
swing1607
swag1608
slinger1767
wintle1786
swale1820
daven1977
1608 T. Middleton Mad World, my Masters iii. sig. D2 I'll poyze her words it'h ballance of suspect, If she but swag shee's gon.
1650 J. Owen Stedfastness of Promises 14 The Promise, that draws the Soul upward, and the weight of its unbelief, that sinks it downward:..the poor Creatures swaggs between both.
1705 J. Dunton Life & Errors 430 If Prerogative swaggs too far on the one side, to step over to Property.
1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiii. xiii. 573 The Austrian left wing, stormed in upon in this manner, swags and sways.
1887 G. Hooper Campaign Sedan 128 The front of battle swagged to and fro.
2. To sink down; to hang loosely or heavily; to sag. Also with down.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > sink > under weight or pressure
sagc1425
swag1630
the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or be suspended [verb (intransitive)] > hang down > loosely
loll1362
sag1526
flag1540
swag1630
blouse1938
1630 tr. J. Drexel Angel-guardian's Clock 270 His iawes began to drie,..his armes to swagg.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 199 A Swaggerer, so called, because endevouring to make that Side to swag or weigh down, whereon he ingageth.
1712 J. Warder True Amazons 115 Or else such a Weight will make it swag.
1731 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 37 31 As the Line swagged down much below the Silk Lines that supported it.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Swagg, to sink down by its own weight; to move heavily or bend.
1876 R. D. Blackmore Cripps xxvi A timer-dray..with a great trunk swinging and swagging on the road.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby ‘It swagg'd wi' wet’, was depressed with moisture; said of a plant.
1883 M. P. Bale Saw-mills 337 Swag, a term applied to driving belts when they are too long or run too loosely.
3. transitive. To cause to sway uncertainly; to rock about; also, to cause to sink or sag.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > cause to move unsteadily [verb (transitive)] > cause to sway unsteadily
swag?1527
stagger1597
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > cause to sag
swag1693
?1527 Iudycyall of Vryns i. iii. 5 b Nother that it be not swagged nor borne fro place to place. For shakyng and boystyous ordryng may cause vryne to be trubbled.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Dict. in Compl. Gard'ner sig. Biiiv, at Truss To Truss up..a Branch of a Wall-Tree..that the Fruit may not..disfigure the Tree by Swagging it down with its weight.
1708 W. Sewel Large Dict. Eng. & Dutch (at cited word) This weight will swag it down.
1778 Ann. Reg. 1777 215/2 He swagged the boat, and in a few minutes filled it and sunk it.
1804 M. Edgeworth Rosanna i, in Pop. Tales II. 84 The couples and purloins of the roof..swagged down by the weight of the thatch.
4. [ < swag n.1 10] Chiefly Australian and New Zealand.
a. intransitive. to swag it: to carry one's ‘swag’ or bundle of effects. Also in extended use, to travel as a swagman (up a region).
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > as a vagabond or tramp > carrying belongings
to swag it1861
to hump (one's, the) bluey1878
to walk (also waltz) Matilda1889
1861 T. McCombie Austral. Sketches 5 The solitary pedestrian, with the whole of his supplies, consisting of a blanket and other necessary articles, strapped across his shoulders—this load is called the ‘swag’, and the mode of travelling, ‘swagging it’.
1883 W. S. Green High Alps N.Z. 247 We would be obliged..to obtain a sheep and ‘swag’ it up the glacier again.
1901 Bull. Reciter (Sydney) 5 And swagging up the long divide that leads to Daybreak Range We came.
1939 J. Pascoe Unclimbed N.Z. 42 We left the hut in auspicious weather to swag up the Mingha riverbed.
1960 ‘A. Carson’ Rose by any Other Name ix. 50 I was swagging my way up to the Northern Territory.
b. transitive. To pack up (one's effects) in a ‘swag’; to carry in a ‘swag’; also, to wander about (the land) as a swagman.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > journey [verb (transitive)] > pack up (one's effects)
to pack up1833
swag1861
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > transport or convey by carrying [verb (transitive)] > convey by carrying (of person) > in a bundle or pack
hump1853
swag1861
colport1888
backpack1956
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (transitive)] > wander (one's way, etc.) > wander in, over, or about > as a tramp carrying belongings
swag1861
1861 J. von Haast Rep. Topogr. & Geol. Explor. Nelson Province i. 16 We again started, on the 11th of February, swagging part of the provisions, &c., down the Buller.
1875 J. Jenkins Diary Welsh Swagman (1975) 52 It is better than swagging the country..searching for work.
1887 W. W. Graham Climbing Himalayas iii, in From Equator to Pole 101 We accordingly swagged up our things.
1914 A. A. Grace Tale of Timber Town 116 You'll get the tucker..and you'll help swag it.
5. Criminals' slang.† a. To steal; to make away with (stolen property). Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)]
pick?c1300
takec1300
fetch1377
bribec1405
usurpc1412
rapc1415
to rap and rendc1415
embezzle1495
lifta1529
pilfer1532
suffurate1542
convey?1545
mill1567
prig1567
strike1567
lag1573
shave1585
knave1601
twitch1607
cly1610
asport1621
pinch1632
snapa1639
nap1665
panyar1681
to carry off1684
to pick up1687
thievea1695
to gipsy away1696
bone1699
make1699
win1699
magg1762
snatch1766
to make off with1768
snavel1795
feck1809
shake1811
nail1819
geach1821
pull1821
to run off1821
smug1825
nick1826
abduct1831
swag1846
nobble1855
reef1859
snig1862
find1865
to pull off1865
cop1879
jump1879
slock1888
swipe1889
snag1895
rip1904
snitch1904
pole1906
glom1907
boost1912
hot-stuff1914
score1914
clifty1918
to knock off1919
snoop1924
heist1930
hoist1931
rabbit1943
to rip off1967
to have off1974
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 113/2 Bag, to take away, see pinch and swag.
1886 H. Baumann Londinismen 200/2 Swag..v., plündern, rauben.
b. To push (a person) forcefully, to ‘shove’; to take or snatch away roughly.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > push > with force or violence
thrustc1175
thrutchc1275
thringa1300
threstc1300
stetec1330
chok?a1400
runa1425
chop1562
tilt1582
jam1836
swag1958
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > suddenly or quickly > roughly
ramp1567
snatch1687
swag1978
1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights i. 10 So when we got swaged into the meatwagon I asked another geezer the strength of him, and the strength was that he'd got nicked for ponceing.
1978 J. Barnett Head of Force iii. 21 The object is to see if the Commissioner was swagged away by anyone during the demo.
Derivatives
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [adjective] > types of
pin-buttocked1566
strong-dockeda1652
swag-buttockeda1652
callipygian1818
pin-tailed1825
fat-arsed1891
callipygous1923
rumpsprung1939
steatopygial1978
a1652 R. Brome Damoiselle v. i. sig. F4v in Five New Playes (1653) Dat is de gross English Douck, for de swagbuttock'd-wife of de Pesant.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [noun] > types of
just wombc1400
paunch?a1425
gorbelly1519
barrel-belly1561
grand paunch1569
pack paunch1582
swag-paunch1611
swag bellya1616
bottle belly1655
paunch-gut1683
pot belly1696
gundy-gut1699
tun-bellya1704
panter1706
corporation1753
pancheon1804
poda1825
bow window1840
pot1868
pus-gut1935
beer belly1942
pussy-gut1949
pot-gut1951
Molson muscle1967
beer gut1976
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ventre à la poulaine, a gulch, big-bellie, gorbellie, swag-paunch, bundle of guts.
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n.11303
n.22002
adj.a1640
v.?1527- to knock up against
- to knock wood
- to knock — bells out of
- to knock, lay , etc, cold
- to knock, lay out, etc, cold
- to knock, smash, blow, cut, etc, into smithereens
- to knock, smash, blow, cut, etc, to smithereens
- to know a good thing when one sees it
- to live in etc
- to live in god
- to live in oneself
- to live in pension
- to live in sin
- to live in the moment
- to live in the past
- to live large
- to live life in the fast lane
- to live like a king
- to live like a lord
- to live like a pig in clover
- to live like a prince
- to live like a queen
- to live like fighting cocks
- to live low off the hog
- to live low on the hog