gunnybag
gunnybag is the alternative form of gunny-bag.
Meaning of gunny-bag
Noun
gunny-bag (plural gunny-bags)
- Gunny sack.
- They lie—some face downwards, arms folded, in the dust; some with clasped hands flung up above their heads; some curled up dog-wise; some thrown like limp gunny-bags over the side of grain carts; and some bowed with their brows on their knees in the full glare of the Moon.1885, Rudyard Kipling, “The City of Dreadful Night”, in The Works of Rudyard Kipling, Delphi Classics, published 2013
Forms of gunnybag
| plural | gunnybags |
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Questions about gunnybag
- What is gunnybag the alternative form of?
- Gunnybag is the alternative form of gunny-bag.
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