Other forms: bags
A bag is a soft container with a handle for carrying things. A shopping bag, pack your bags, a bag of flour.
Charging for plastic ones cut their use by more than ninety per cent in Britain within a year, which is one of the clearest results any environmental policy has produced. A bag of nerves means very anxious, and bags under the eyes means tired.
1nounbagA soft container with a handle for carrying things.
“She put her shopping in a canvas bag and carried it home.”
bag is a container.
Middle English bagge comes from Old Norse baggi, a pack or bundle. Baggage is a relative.
Middle English
bagge
English, today
bag
From Middle English bagge. Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of unknown origin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA