bagger

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbæɡɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbæɡə/
• (Southern England, Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈbæːɡə/

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From Middle English bagger, baggere, baggare, equivalent to bag +‎ -er (agent noun suffix).

bagger (plural baggers)

1. One who bags.
   1. A retail employee who bags customers' purchases and carries them to the customers' vehicles.

      Synonyms: courtesy clerk, sacker

      Hyponym: bag boy

From bag +‎ -er (relational noun suffix).

bagger (plural baggers)

1. A touring motorcycle equipped with saddlebags.

• beggar

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑ.ɣər/

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• Hyphenation: bag‧ger
• Rhymes: -ɑɣər

From Middle Dutch baggaerds, of uncertain origin, but possibly a late Indo-European substrate borrowing shared with Proto-Slavic *bagno (“silt, peat, mud”).^[1]

bagger f (uncountable)

1. mud, dredge, dirt

   De varkens wroeten in de bagger. ― The pigs are rooting in the mud.

2. filth, muck, any mucky or dirty substance (such as dredge)
3. (slang) junk, crap, stuff (substandard objects)

   Wat voor bagger heb je nou gekocht? ― What kind of crap did you buy this time?

• Afrikaans: bagger

bagger (comparative baggerder, superlative baggerst)

1. (slang) crap, terrible, bleh

   Het weer is bagger vandaag. ― The weather is crap today.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bagger

1. inflection of baggeren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

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bagger

1. inflection of baggern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative